SUMMARY: root with ksh or csh

From: Cristian Martínez T. (cmartinezt@bhif.cl)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 08:46:20 CDT


Well. I received a mail-bombing of responses. :-)

33% said yes. 33% say is risky and 33% said no.

The 33% who said yes just said yes and nothing more.

The 33% who said is risky explain that sh is statically linked. So, if I
change sh to /bin/csh (/usr/bin/csh and dynamically linked) and /usr is
another filesystem the csh won't work because it couldn't find the
necesary libraries. So, the single user mode also won't work. Also, the
script that is in /etc/rc* use the sh to be processed. So, if possible
that some script don't work if I use csh or ksh.

Check de faq : http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html#q3.29

Finally, the last 33% said no because the myths and folcklore said no.

Thank you very much.

Cristian Martínez T.
SubGerencia de Informática
Fono : (56 2) 679-1310
BBV Banco BHIF

-----Original Message-----
From: Cristian Martínez T.
Sent: martes 14 de septiembre de 1999 18:31
To: 'sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu'
Subject: root with ksh or csh

Admins, a simple question :

Is possible to change in /etc/passwd the shell of root from sh to ksh or
csh ?

Thanks in advance.

Cristian Martínez T.
SubGerencia de Informática
Fono : (56 2) 679-1310
BBV Banco BHIF



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