Importing mksh in base

[Cy Schubert]

On January 25, 2019 11:14:23 AM PST, John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>On 1/25/19 11:07 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> As to replacing root's shell, replacing tcsh is a large POLA
>violation.
>> 
>> It will not replace in existing installation just make it the default
>in new installation I can t see how this is a POLA violation if it is
>in new setup on new major version (upgrades won t be affacted)
>
>I'm mostly struggling to find a reason to care what is in root's
>/etc/passwd
>line, but aside from that, for people who use mergemaster or etcupdate,
>it
>will try to merge the new shell during an upgrade of an existing
>system.
>Granted, if you have an actual root password set the line will be a
>conflict, but it's not strictly true to say that existing installs
>wouldn't
>be affected.
> 
>>> Maybe give users the option at install time instead. 
>> 
>> Doable, unsure it is worth it but yes we can do that if that is asked
>a lot
>
>I think we should avoid the tendency to add new questions to the
>install if 
>we can avoid it.  I often see this mentioned for potential POLA-type
>changes
>and I think there are two issues: 1) it doesn't address upgrades, and
>2) we
>should keep a streamlined install process as much as possible IMO.  If
>we
>start piling up a bunch of extra questions during the install it will
>just
>make users' eyes glaze over.

I'm willing to concede what shell root uses by default part of this thread.

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Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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