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From: floydd@chinet.chi.il.us (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: my ROOT is DEAD !  What am I going to do ?!
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.035609.9248@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 18 Sep 90 03:56:09 GMT
References: <245@geocub.greco-prog.fr> <1070@das13.snide.com>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1070@das13.snide.com> dave@das13.snide.com (das13!dave) writes:
>In article <245@geocub.greco-prog.fr>, lath@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Laurent Lathieyre) writes:
>> 
>> /bin/rootsh is a shell script which make an echo to warn
>> that you are super-user and make /bin/ksh
>> /bin/rootsh has the following access rights -rwx------ root users
>
>The shell script is your problem.  If you aren't running 'sh' or 'ksh', whats
>going to run your shell script?  What you need is a 'C' program!  Try this one.

The default in /etc/password can be set to a shell script, and in some
cases it is very handy.  You do not get the services of /etc/profile
or a $HOME/.profile, instead you get exactly what you put in the shell
script.

Floyd