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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: my ROOT is DEAD !  What am I going to do ?!
Message-ID: <39028@becker.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 90 01:52:02 GMT
References: <2633@ttardis.UUCP>
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <2633@ttardis.UUCP> rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes:
|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

	You can login to a shell script from /etc/passwd -
	however "su -" won't work.  "su" doesn't care as
	long as it's a program, but "su -c" will complain
	if it isn't "/bin/sh". Interestingly enough,
	this doesn't appear to be the case from within
	a crontab.

	I've been running the "root" passwd entry with
	/bin/ksh for some months without hassles so far.
	When I "su root -c ..." from any interactive
	shell, su complains: "Non-standard shell - denied".
	...But the same line inside crontab works fine...

Cheers,
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