[4778] in testers
Linux root user behavior different from Sun and SGI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Jun 13 17:47:35 2001
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To: testers@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:47:30 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I noticed that the fact that Linux has a different default root shell from
Sun and SGI (bash vs. tcsh) can have confusing consequences- for example
if I need to run some application as root, I need to do:
Linux:
log in as me
add foo
su
foo (runs foo as root)
Sun and SGI:
log in as me
su
add foo
foo (runs foo as root)
Could we make default Linux behavior be the same as Sun and SGI?
Alex
