On Thu,21.May.09, 13:46:19, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 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).
It was a release goal for lenny[1] and it almost made it. Now it has been proposed again for squeeze[2]. I have /bin/sh linked to dash for a long while, and haven't seen any problems. [1] http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt [2] http://wiki.debian.org/SqueezeReleaseGoals Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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