> It used to be that root's shell had to be /bin/sh so > that, > if your /usr partition got corrupted and you had to > boot > without it being mounted, you could still log in > single > user and fix things (/usr/bin/bash wouldn't be there > in > that case, and root logins would fail with a "no > shell" > error message - quite a bummer when you ran into > it...)
Another side-effect on earlier Solaris revisions is that quite a number of startup scripts assumed they were running in /sbin/sh, so if one changed the root's shell, there would be "breakage" all over the place, and the system wouldn't boot properly. Ever since then, I can't bring myself to change the root's shell, lest some start/stop method assume it's still running in /sbin/sh. Theoretically, nothing will break. But it's just safer not to mess with it. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
