On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:29 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Daniel Jackson <fdj@mindspring.com> wrote:
On 09/24/2014 07:22 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
That won't automatically invoke bash on Debian/Ubuntu....unless someone intentionally changed default shells....
People seem not to know that Debian and derivatives use a variant Almquist shell rather than bash for system accounts.
You're both wrong.
$ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 7 \n \l
$ ls -laF /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 17 2011 /bin/sh -> bash* $ grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
You have done something wrong/different than what appears on a relatively clean install: $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 7 \n \l $ cat /etc/debian_version 7.6 $ ls -laF /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 1 2012 /bin/sh -> dash* $ grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh I'm curious now... did you install a server or desktop version of Debian? Was if from netinst or cds, etc.? -Jim P.