Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (605 mails)

[Roman Drahtmueller <draht@xxxxxxx>]

> No. /bin/sh is not really optional on any install (that I've ever seen). If
> it is that vendor would be seriously breaking with tradition, there is a
> very good reason for a small statically linked shell. In most cases now it
> is linked to bash (i.e. literally a symlink) which is unfortunate because
> bash is often nolonger compiled statically, meaning if you lose one critical
> library you are really up the creek. Still it's more reliable then hoping
> for a cdrom drive for most headless servers =). Another alternative is to
> boot from floppy and use rescue via network.

We know of the old tradition of statically linking /bin/sh, we would like
to have it, but it doesn't work that way. With modern glibc systems,
static linking is not supported any more, mostly because of the
language/localization support.

If it was all that easy, we'd have it there.

>
> Kurt Seifried, kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks,
Roman.
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