On 26/04/16 10:07 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 4/26/2016 6:45 PM, Jack Bailey wrote:
>>
>> Today someone in a meeting claimed the Bourne shell is deprecated, one
>> of the reasons being it supposedly has security issues. Well that's
>> all news to me, and I cannot find anything online to corroborate the
>> claim. Is this true, is it a bash vs. Bourne FUD, or something else?
>
> there's no Bourne shell in CentOS anyways, /bin/sh is a symlink to
> /bin/bash...
>
> last OS I can think of with an actual Bourne shell was Solaris.
??
[root@an-striker01 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
[root@an-striker01 ~]# which bash
/bin/bash
[root@an-striker01 ~]# ls -lah /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 885K Sep 22 2015 /bin/bash
[root@an-striker01 ~]# which sh
/bin/sh
[root@an-striker01 ~]# ls -lah /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Mar 27 18:40 /bin/sh -> bash
Same upstream on Fedora 23:
0 root@pulsar:/home/digimer# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 23 (Twenty Three)
0 root@pulsar:/home/digimer# which bash
/bin/bash
0 root@pulsar:/home/digimer# ls -lah /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1.1M Jan 11 06:02 /bin/bash
0 root@pulsar:/home/digimer# which sh
/bin/sh
0 root@pulsar:/home/digimer# ls -lah /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Jan 11 06:02 /bin/sh -> bash
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