On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Greywolf wrote:

> [Thus spake Dan LaBell ("DL: ") 2:57pm...]
>
> DL: You could maybe make a link to /bin/sh as /sbin/init.bak, and get a
> DL: shell.
>
> You're not going to get much if init's not running.
>
> DL: Incidentily, is there no sulogin available? In pkgsrc or otherwise?
>
> Oh, gack.  Please throw that one back.  sulogin is an egregious hack that
> should have been wiped off its mother's leg.
>
> DL: Of course, the lack of it, may make going to pam easier, as if was used
> DL: sulogin was and it pam'ed, then pam problems would lock one out of
> DL: single user as well... I think
> DL: I hit that with linux maybe 6 years after a pam upgrade...
>
> That's why init does its own thing in the first place.

Is there perhaps an equivalent to ash or busybox on netbsd, for rescue 
and repair purposes ? (ash is a minimal featureset sh-compatible shell 
that is statically linked. It is used with some systems for 
installation, bootable floppies and such).

Peter