geoff@callan.UUCP (07/27/84)
We all know by now that System 5 init runs /bin/su rather than /bin/sh, and that the reason for this is to run the shell in the password file. (In fact, my system runs /bin/csh in single-user mode). But did you know that there is a way to get init to run /bin/sh directly? Try this: ln /bin/sh /bin/su Obviously, this will only work on a dedicated filesystem that is intended for running in single-user mode. Fortunately, this was exactly what we were doing--the filesystem is a bootable floppy and is *tight*. The 57 or so blocks used by /bin/su were sure useful once we came up with this idea. -- Geoff Kuenning Callan Data Systems ...!ihnp4!wlbr!callan!geoff