From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 2 21:48:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22647 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 21:48:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (host77-31.airnet.net [209.64.77.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22591 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 21:48:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@ninbox.ml.org) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA01107; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 23:48:31 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3524782F.17725BA4@ninbox.ml.org> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 23:48:31 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Reply-To: kris@airnet.net Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Takashi Hooper CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what are all the different users for? References: <199804020209.LAA03059@rabu.garage.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Takashi Hooper wrote: > As a related question, can anyone tell me for sure if it's ok to change > the login shell for root? I am used to using bash, so I'd like to use > that; however, is there anything that depends on root being /bin/csh? > I knew this one guy who accidentally blew away csh and couldn't start a root shell without kernel -s because he exited before he noticed the problem. Now he keeps a root shell running with sh and open so he doesn't goof up ;-) -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message