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Re: root's shell



Amos Shapira <amos@gezernet.co.il> writes:

> |> 
> |> 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
> 
> Why?  (Taking the shared-libs issues aside).
> 

It's exactly the shared libs issue. No matter how badly screwed your
system is, root should be able to login and run minimal administration
tools.

Actually, as a proposal for Linux(UNIX) distribution rules, I'd
suggest:

1. All administration (section 8) tools must be statically linked
2. There should be statically linked copies of most important
utilities (ls, rm, (b)ash, cat, vi, (s)ed, etc.) in /sbin
3. Root's shell MUST be statically compiled

-- 
-Alexander

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