From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 27 10:42: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F5337C177 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:41:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA214E; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:42:51 -0700 Message-ID: <3958E6B1.D6C3A5B2@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:38:57 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: "Dimitrios T." , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no questions? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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