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Re: FW: root shell changed.
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: FW: root shell changed.
- From: Sagi Bashari <sagi(at-nospam)aresworld.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:20:55 +0200 (IST)
- cc: <haim(at-nospam)hageltech.com>, Linux-IL <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <20010225191244.A16674@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
No, it's the normal su from shadow utils (shadow-19990607).
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001, Sagi Bashari wrote about "Re: FW: root shell changed.":
> > well, you don't have that option in any version of su.
> > for example, i'm using here slackware-current with shadow-19990607 - no
> > such option..
>
> This is weird... su has a --shell (or better: -s) option in my Redhat
> 7.0, and also in an antique Redhat 5.2 I have access to. This option
> should be recognized by any modern (i.e, of the last 5 years or so) version
> of GNU sh-util's su. Do slackware write their own su or something?
>
> That this option is not available on other Unix systems, such as
> Solaris 5.6 (for example) if you don't install GNU su.
>
> Many years ago, before home computers were hooked up to the network, I
> had setuid shell stashed in my directory somewhere, just in case something
> goes wrong ;) Nowadays I wouldn't recommend doing that...
>
> But anyway, as people already suggested, the init linux=/bin/sh (or
> whatever the correct format of that line is) is the best solution.
>
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> Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Feb 25 2001, 3 Adar 5761
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