From: Marc Baudoin <Marc.Baudoin@solsoft.com>
To: Tim Writer <Tim.Writer@ftlsol.com>
Cc: Bruce Stephens <B.Stephens@isode.com>, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: zsh as root login
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 09:15:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19970828091534.01234@skiff.solsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3iuwrw6v8.fsf@snoopy.ftlsol.com>; from Tim Writer on Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 07:20:27PM -0400
Tim Writer <Tim.Writer@ftlsol.com> écrit :
>
> Agreed. But I'm curious as to why you (Marc Baudoin) even want zsh
> statically linked.
Just to be able to log in as root while my computer in booted
single user, as only / is mounted and root's shell is zsh.
> I prefer to keep root dead simple, using /bin/sh without evan a
> .profile.
Why? When you're logged as root, you also use ed instead of vi
to keep it simple? :-)
As I manage a lot of machines remotely, I like to have a good
shell for root (who still uses sh without beeing bothered?) and I
don't want to have many uid 0 accounts. So root's shell is zsh
and it needs to be static so I can log in where I'm in front of
the computer and it's booted single user.
--
Marc Baudoin -=- <Marc.Baudoin@solsoft.com>
Security On-Line software
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-08-28 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-08-27 9:40 Marc Baudoin
1997-08-27 9:59 ` Andrew Main
1997-08-27 10:02 ` Marc Baudoin
1997-08-27 10:09 ` Andrew Main
1997-08-27 10:15 ` Marc Baudoin
1997-08-27 12:51 ` Juergen Christoffel
1997-08-27 12:55 ` Marc Baudoin
1997-08-27 12:58 ` Andrew Main
1997-08-27 10:44 ` Bruce Stephens
1997-08-27 23:20 ` Tim Writer
1997-08-28 1:58 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-08-28 7:15 ` Marc Baudoin [this message]
1997-08-29 2:17 ` Tim Writer
1997-08-29 5:40 ` Duncan Sargeant
[not found] <5lu3gbh6vp.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu>
1997-08-28 6:16 ` Geoff Wing
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