On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Dean Huxley wrote:

// It's nice to have toor when roots shell is dynamically linked and
// you've just messed up /usr/lib... ;-)

	I kind of read that as, ``It's nice to have a back-door into the
OS when you make unreasonable misconfigurations and need to repair them.''
I've heard a lot of people talking about changing root's shell to their
favorite login shell, which sounds to me that they want to use root as a
general login shell.  I certainly use my favorite shell in the rare cases
when I am root, but I dare not change any of my root shells.  It's just
too easy in those rare cases to type ``exec /path/to/tcsh'' ...and *way*
too many times, that wouldn't have worked.  I just can't imagine where
changing root's shell, especially from a statically linked one to a
dynamically linked one, would be a good thing to do.

	I'm glad toor is going away, but I don't much care what shell root
ends up with, as I don't intend to login as root, and in the rare cases
when I need to, I'll exec whatever shell I want to use.

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