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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Friday 18 March 2005 04:09 pm, Arjan Bouter wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:42:33 -0800
> with the security part i was talking about profile.d
> the root account must be functional at all times for a box to work
> reliable. It would be quite annoying when a file in profile.d would do
> something like
>       alias ls='rm -rf /'
> that would definately be bad for root to run and hard to avoid unless you
> like to check the installed files of every spell you cast...
> having root *not* use profile.d by default just adds one more safety
> measure.
>

This wasn't about /root/.bashrc linking to /etc/profile.d/whatever.  This was 
about /root/.bashrc linking to /root/.bash_profile.


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