From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 11: 5:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bcfw1d.bridge.com (bcfw1d.ext.bridge.com [167.76.159.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6DD237B402 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:05:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bcfw1d.bridge.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f0AJ6Qc14686 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:06:26 -0600 (CST) Received: from unknown(167.76.56.34) by bcfw1d.bridge.com via smap (V5.5) id xma014639; Wed, 10 Jan 01 13:06:16 -0600 Received: from mnmailhost (mnmailhost.bridge.com [167.76.155.14]) by mail1srv.bridge.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA06370 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:05:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from 89-7 by mnmailhost (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1) id OAA26930; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:05:09 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su su References: <14940.39868.769882.575793@guru.mired.org> From: Tim Ayers Date: 10 Jan 2001 13:05:07 -0600 In-Reply-To: Mike Meyer's message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:28:28 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: <4rz79qjg.fsf@tim.bridge.com> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "M" == Mike Meyer writes: M> The problem with "su -" is that you get csh, not bash. Not exactly. You get the shell that root uses. 'su -' simulates a full login. If your root account uses csh then you get csh. If your root account uses bash then you get bash. Be aware that some people considering having root use a shell that is not in /usr/bin _a very bad idea_. Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message