my ROOT is DEAD ! What am I going to do ?!

Floyd Davidson floydd at chinet.chi.il.us
Tue Sep 18 13:56:09 AEST 1990


In article <1070 at das13.snide.com> dave at das13.snide.com (das13!dave) writes:
>In article <245 at geocub.greco-prog.fr>, lath at geocub.greco-prog.fr (Laurent Lathieyre) writes:
>> 
>> /bin/rootsh is a shell script which make an echo to warn
>> that you are super-user and make /bin/ksh
>> /bin/rootsh has the following access rights -rwx------ root users
>
>The shell script is your problem.  If you aren't running 'sh' or 'ksh', whats
>going to run your shell script?  What you need is a 'C' program!  Try this one.

The default in /etc/password can be set to a shell script, and in some
cases it is very handy.  You do not get the services of /etc/profile
or a $HOME/.profile, instead you get exactly what you put in the shell
script.

Floyd



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