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From: rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: my ROOT is DEAD !  What am I going to do ?!
Message-ID: <2633@ttardis.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 90 23:04:34 GMT
Organization: Gallifrey
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In article <1990Sep18.035609.9248@chinet.chi.il.us>, floydd@chinet.chi.il.us (Floyd Davidson) writes:
>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.

It's been my experience that login and su insist on the shell for root be
/bin/sh

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