Re: boot banner project

From: Charles Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 05/10/05

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    Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 01:09:57 -0400
To: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>

    [ Sorry for the delay in responding, I decided to take the weekend off
    from email. 600 FreeBSD messages await me, no doubt filled with a
    mixture of useful tech stuff and the copyright-thread-that-won't-die. ]

    On May 8, 2005, at 3:57 AM, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
    >>> You got lucky then, because there's some actual footshooting
    >>> potential in
    >>> doing that. Use toor.
    >>
    >> Interesting, I have been running /bin/sh since 1.0R (yes..) for root
    >> and it never bit me. Where is that footshooting potential?
    >
    > Sorry, I just scanned the thread before replying - there's probably no
    > footshooting potential in using /bin/sh for root.
    >
    > I was thinking about using (/usr/local/bin/)bash for root, something a
    > lot of
    > people try to do (until they notice a toe missing :).

    I've managed to plunk a round or two into my own foot, using a shell
    located in /usr/local, rather than staticly linked and present on /.
    :-) It's no fun to boot off a CD because the system can't automaticly
    fsck the filesystem that root's shell wants to use, and wants manual
    help...

    However, the toor account is a fine idea: every system I've got--
    whether running FreeBSD or not-- uses /bin/sh for root's shell.
    However, I've also created toor accounts using my preferred shell [1]
    as a backup. If FreeBSD were to ship with tcsh as toor's shell, and
    /bin/sh as root's shell, that would still provide a super-user login
    with tcsh for those who want such a thing.

    However, logging in as a normal user and gaining privileges via sudo
    seems to work just as well, and avoids the need to login directly as a
    UID==0 account. 

    -- 
-Chuck
[1]: ZSH.
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