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Re: root's shell



Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> writes:

> 
> On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Harvey J. Stein wrote:
> 
> > Ira Abramov writes:
> > > is csh (tcsh) on linux systems staticly linked? how can one tell?
> > 
> > ldd <file> will tell what dynamic libraries <file> uses.  If nothing
> > is listed, then it's statically linked.
> 
> oooops. I knew that command and forgot it... :)
> 
> well, it seems like in Linux it's actually safer to use tcsh then!
> 

What do you mean by safer? They are both bad. :) . The *GOOD* thing
for root account must be either:

a) *completely* statically compiled bash; or
b) ash, 'exec'ing bash

-- 
-Alexander

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Alexander L. Belikoff			belikoff@bfr.co.il
Berger Financial Research Ltd.
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