disabling bashrc

It may be necessary to disable bashrc for a number of reasons:

• a user added a mistake in .bashrc or .bash_profile that causes the shell to be unusable.

• incident response and malware remediation.

Starting bash with –noprofile or –nosrc https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9357464/how-to-start-a-shell-without-any-user-configuration

Examples: bash –noprofile –norc

env -i bash –noprofile –norc env -i bash –rcfile /etc/profile ### if /etc/profile is clean.

Recompiling bash https://dmfrsecurity.com/2019/10/31/building-a-hardened-shell-for-attack-defend-ctf-supremacy/

• edit config-top.h
  • set no_rc to 1
  • set no_profile to 1
• recompile

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