On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 03:05:12PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> IIRC, bash is almost always dynamically linked, while sh is statically
> linked.

Guess again:

kuno ~$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 May 25  2000 /bin/sh -> bash
kuno ~$

> It's a good measure to have a fall-back superuser account for
> emergencies, IMHO.

Yes, it is.  Just use sash (apt-get install sash) as the backup shell instead
of /bin/sh.

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