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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:29:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
To:        Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)
Message-ID:  <20071005162851.X8934@bravo.pjkh.com>
In-Reply-To: <1960C310-B558-484E-927A-4AAC273621D6@optusnet.com.au>
References:  <2F42244C-6F3F-48B3-AC05-FF068A791324@optusnet.com.au> <20071005204531.40afed9a@gumby.homeunix.com.> <1960C310-B558-484E-927A-4AAC273621D6@optusnet.com.au>

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> On 06/10/2007, at 5:45 AM, RW wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:54:26 +1000
>> Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically
>>> linked
>> 
>> I would suggest using bash as your toor shell instead. toor exist
>> precisely for this purpose.
>
> Yeah, I'v done that in the past, but I really dislike csh, I don't want to 
> use
> it EVER =p

Use sudo... and alias 'su' to 'sudo -H bash'.

That's what I do... but can always fall back to the default if necessary.



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