Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:07:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Needed: Info on shells and script writing Message-ID: <199708150607.AAA18050@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970814122632.858B-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813133111.11463A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <Pine.SGI.3.95.970814122632.858B-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Annelise Anderson wrote:
% Note: Do not change root's shell. It must be either sh or csh, because
% otherwise you may not have a working shell when the system puts you
% into single user mode.
Jonathan Chen writes:
> Is this true? I've got tcsh as my root's shell, and when I `shutdown'
> into single user, FreeBSD prompts me for the shell to use (in which
> case I accept the default `sh').
Sun used to grumble and groan, and occasionally even refuse to provide
support, if you changed root's shell, especially to something not
provided by Sun.
The old-timers answer to your question is to make a root synonym account
that uses the shell of choice. For instance, all of my systems have a
rootb account with UID and GID 0, and the shell set to bash. This is
the idea behind the BSD-standard 'toor' account also.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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