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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:35:33 -0400
Subject: Re: Changing root user's shell remotely
From: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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That did the trick.

Thanks a bunch.  I looked through the man page for su but I guess I looked
right over the -m option.

Brendan

> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:05:45 +0300
> To: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Changing root user's shell remotely
> 
> On 2002-04-09 12:40, Brendan McAlpine wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>> 
>> I have run into a bit of a problem.  For some reason, when I ssh into my
>> FreeBSD box and try to su to root, I get this message:
>> 
>> su: /bin/csh: No such file or directory
> 
> Try using "su -m" which will keep your current environment (and use
> the same shell as you are using as a user).  Then when your id is
> root, use "chsh root".  Note that you -HAVE- to specify "root" to
> chsh, since I'm not sure if it will get the user right and might end
> up editing your simple user's shell instead :)
> 
> Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
> keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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