On 04/27/16 08:49, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 04/26/16 21:13, 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. >> >> > > The various *BSD's have & use the actual Bourne shell .... > > Which one? All the BSDs I know of use the Almquist Shell except for OpenBSD which uses a patched version of the Public Domain Korn Shell -- Pouar