Subject: Re: "su" in r escue?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/24/2004 11:32:53
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:20:12PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
  | > I consider it extremely risky to not have (remote) console access of
  | > a system that you are maintaining, whether the userland is fully
  | > dynamically linked or not; /rescue just makes the system more robust
  | > in that situation.
  |=20
  | Not really very.  You want to move sshd to /rescue - or at least link
  | it static - too?  Otherwise, you may well not have a shell to run
  | /rescue/su from.

FWIW: when I said "more robust in that situation" I was referring to
"fully dynamically linked or not", not "lack of remote console access".

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