"Soren S. Jorvang" wrote:

> Also, while I think /bin/sh would be more suitable as the
> default root shell, a better generalization would perhaps
> be to have init make a relaxed attempt at finding root's
> shell from /etc/passwd and offer that when booting in
> single-user mode?

I thought of that earlier, but then you'd have to do sanity checks on
whether the filesystem that has the shell was mounted, whether or not
it is a static binary, etc.  Just assume anything in /*bin is static?
"Hairy".

Simon.