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From: yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
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Subject: Re: my ROOT is DEAD !  What am I going to do ?!
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Date: 23 Sep 90 04:53:21 GMT
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res@cbnews.att.com (Robert E. Stampfli) writes:
>The same holds true for anyone thinking of making /bin/ksh your standard root
>shell.  Root is one account best left alone.

Since noone's mentioned it... a common solution is a separate-but-equal
"kroot" account, which uses /bin/ksh.  Of course, you still can't use ksh
for su -c, but there are precious few times that's necessary.

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Norman Yarvin					yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu