On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 05:11:22AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Jim Popovitch wrote:
I *did* read that, and it doesn't change anything about what I wrote. Debian didn't make those changes for you...... Debian has never set root's shell to bash, ever. PEBKAC?
I can verify Williams settings on my Debian system that was initially installed back in 3.x days or so, probably around 2005 or thereabouts. My root shell uses bash and /bin/sh points to bash.
I haven't administered many Debian / Ubuntu systems recently, but I did during the days of hamm / slink / potato, and my recollection is that the *default* /bin/sh in 2.x and 3.x was bash, though it was possible to configure the system to use ash or something lighter weight instead. Doubt I currently have access to any systems that old, but: % cat /etc/debian_version 5.0.4 % ls -al /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-03-05 16:58 /bin/sh -> bash* % which dash dash not found $ cat /etc/debian_version 5.0.9 $ ls -al /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2010-08-02 12:21 /bin/sh -> bash* So, I think "never... ever" is maybe not quite correct. w