[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM Casper.Dik at Sun.COM
Sat May 12 11:57:31 UTC 2007


>To my mind, the question would be does anything non-interactive use
>root's shell from the passwd database?  If not, I don't see that it would
>matter, unless someone is depending on /.profile entries or the like, which
>is their problem.

Nothing that I ever came across.

But remote shells will behave differently if only for the shell metacharacter
behaviour.  (C-shells will print "no-match" when they can't expand)

Casper



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