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

Norman Yarvin yarvin-norman at cs.yale.edu
Sun Sep 23 14:53:21 AEST 1990


res at cbnews.att.com (Robert E. Stampfli) writes:
>The same holds true for anyone thinking of making /bin/ksh your standard root
>shell.  Root is one account best left alone.

Since noone's mentioned it... a common solution is a separate-but-equal
"kroot" account, which uses /bin/ksh.  Of course, you still can't use ksh
for su -c, but there are precious few times that's necessary.

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Norman Yarvin					yarvin-norman at cs.yale.edu



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