tcsh for root -- ok or not?

Rob McMahon cudcv at warwick.ac.uk
Fri Apr 12 00:47:09 AEST 1991


In article <MOORE.91Apr9131053 at terra.srl.mew.mei.co.jp>
moore at srl.mew.mei.co.jp (W. Phillip Moore) writes:
>That and make sure the binary is local, not accessed by NFS.

I'd also add to make sure it's statically linked.  If you goof and mess up the
shared library stuff (e.g. by doing ldconfig /non/existent/directory ...) you
might appreciate still being able to get a root shell ...

Cheers,

Rob
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