From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 15:31:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4ADF14BC9 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:31:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA47947; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:30:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:30:11 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is you favorite shell? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > I have no problems with bash 2 as root user. Tho' I do make > > sure it's copied into /bin as the default install is to > > /usr/local/bin. > > *slap* *slap* > > is your /bin/bash statically linked? If not expect a hell of a time > using it in single user mode. (no /usr/lib available) > > I see too many people coming from Linux thinking that this is _ok_ > to do. It is NOT. Typing 'bash' after 'su' don't kill you. In single user the shell listed in the password file is ignored. The "Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: " prompt determines the shell in single user mode. RETURN invokes sh even with a default root shell of /usr/local/bin/tcsh. The One True Shell. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message