Hello all, On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:21:34 -0400 Digimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 There seems to be a big confusion in this thread. The Bourne shell has gone long time ago. The Bourne-Again shell is bash (which is GNU software). Bash is not the Bourne shell. FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell Regards, -- wwp
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