bash security hole

Ralf Mardorf kde.lists at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 27 03:14:12 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 13:13 -0700, Steve Riley wrote:
> On 2014-09-26 01:05:49 Ralf Mardorf <kde.lists at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't care about the link, anyway, bash is _not_ the default shell for
> > this distro.
> 
> While it's true that /bin/sh points to /bin/dash, it is not true that Dash is the default shell when you open a Konsole window. Check for yourself:
> 
> 
> steve at t520:~$ ps -p $$
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
> 18811 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
> 
> --- AND ---
> 
> steve at t520:~$ echo $SHELL
> /bin/bash
> 
> 
> Everyone needs to update now.
> 
> ...Steve

Yes, sorry, login shell still is bash for Debian based distros.





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