On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:19:24PM -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > Sthu Deus wrote: >> Good day. >> >> I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell environment >> is set as bash and for some as sh. This has led me to the following >> questions: >> >> . Why is it so, meaning what is the meaning of it? >> . Do I give more insecure environment to a user setting for him sh >> instead of bash? > > In Debian, absolutely nothing since it's a symbolic link to bash...
Though by policy /bin/sh should not be assu,ed to be bash. In practice many people do set it to dash (e.g. the U distro). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
