[Info-vax] CLI editing, was: Re: VMS - Virtual Terminals - A security risk way back yonder OR was that an Old Wives Tale ?

[Steven Schweda]

> I haven't seen HP-UX live in about 15 years...

   Which says what, exactly, about your UNIX expertise?

> /sbin would be a very strange place to put any shells, or
> commonly used binaries. It's mostly a place where you would
> place system binaries that would be needed for standalone
> use, which are not commonly used by normal users.  [...]

   Actually, it would be a reasonable place to put the
statically linked executables, like the "sh" normally used by
"root", because that "sh" can work before /usr (with its
shared libraries) is mounted.

> [...] But Unix-like systems have such varied and confusing
> directory structures... 

   Some of use may be easier to confuse than others.

   A Web search for keywords like, say:
      hp-ux root shell
might be a better way to invest some time than expounding
here about what's true about UNIX (and its friends).