Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:38:57 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: "Dimitrios T." <midios3@hotmail.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no questions? Message-ID: <3958E6B1.D6C3A5B2@acuson.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006270913580.31633-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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Rick Hamell wrote: > But if he'd learned a little bit more he would > know that BASH is the default shell for root and should never, ever be > changed under any Unix system. Whenever I install, it comes us with sh as the default. BASH is the GNU variation and extension to sh, and AFAIK it is only a default on (some)Linux and GNU systems, but not on FreeBSD, Solaris, IRIX, etc. Follow up discussion-type question (not a -HOW question): I routinely change my root default shell to tcsh or bash. What would be the consequences to this? Any scripts will still run because sh is still installed. Is this a security thing? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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