From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2609 invoked from network); 28 Aug 1997 07:20:57 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Aug 1997 07:20:57 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA14594; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 03:16:35 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 03:16:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970828091534.01234@skiff.solsoft.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 09:15:34 +0200 From: Marc Baudoin To: Tim Writer Cc: Bruce Stephens , zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: zsh as root login References: <199708271045.GAA27847@math.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.83e In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Writer on Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 07:20:27PM -0400 Resent-Message-ID: <"v_B181.0.NZ3.1NI1q"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/993 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Tim Writer 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 -=- Security On-Line software