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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-02-15 00:31, William Pechter wrote:
> In article <n9qnd4$602$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>,
> Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2016-02-14 19:42, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
>>> I know Johnny loves to argue so here's an example of UNIX with a statically
>>> linked shell. Read it and weep, babe.
>>
>> Oh, I love to argue. No denying that. I just have this inability to keep
>> quiet when I see something I think is wrong. :-)
>>
>> By the way, I can build static binaries all day long. It's not hard. But
>> I still find the concept of a "default" shell a bit weird. I've never
>> seen problems using whatever shell I personally prefer, no matter what
>> shells were already installed or not, and they have never been in the
>> way of installing whatever other software needed, so I find the claim
>> that you stick to bash in Linux because of some problem just super weird.
>>
>> 	Johnny
>>
>> --
>> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>>                                    ||  on a psychedelic trip
>> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
>> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>
> Try changing the root user's default shell on a 1985-95 version of Unix
> and see if the thing will be able to even boot correctly.

BSD systems normally had csh as the shell for root back then. I hope you 
remember that. :-)

> In the early days before #! /bin/sh was in common use the only way
> the C shell scripts were often differentiated was by a : as the top line
> and a hack that had those run by csh instead of sh.

We're going fast down memory lane here... But I think you might need to 
go further back than mid 80s. :-)

	Johnny

-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol