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Re: [suse-security] I forgot my root password
- From: "Kurt Seifried" <listuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:52:04 -0600
- Message-id: <002c01c15f29$3cf87be0$6400030a@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
Kurt Seifried, kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
A15B BEE5 B391 B9AD B0EF
AEB0 AD63 0B4E AD56 E574
http://www.seifried.org/security/
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.
Kurt Seifried, kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
A15B BEE5 B391 B9AD B0EF
AEB0 AD63 0B4E AD56 E574
http://www.seifried.org/security/
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