Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 21:00:51 -0400 From: Geoff Speicher <geoff@speicher.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh is root's shell? Message-ID: <20041006010051.GA53821@sirius.speicher.org> In-Reply-To: <1F92A08DB846503C2933CB0D@[192.168.1.16]> References: <200410060019.i960JSbq012606@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <1F92A08DB846503C2933CB0D@[192.168.1.16]>
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:26:32PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > --On Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:19 PM -0700 David Wolfskill > <david@catwhisker.org> wrote: > > >Well, per > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/master.passwd?rev=1.1&conte > >nt-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup it looks as if /bin/csh was root's shell as > >of Revision 1.1, Sun Jun 20 13:41:37 1993 UTC (11 years, 3 months ago) by > >rgrimes. > > > >No, I didn't check to see if it had changed back & forth in the interim. > > Wow. I must have been carrying my passwd files along with my upgrades > since forever. I don't have a single system that has csh as root's shell. I imagine it was made the default because of its supposed friendly interactivity features. I personally find it quite the contrary (no offense to Bill Joy of course), as do plenty of others. Google on 'csh considered harmful' for a compelling argument. The nice part about having csh as the default root shell is that it actually discourages use of the root login. That nasty csh is a constant reminder for me that I'm logged in as root and probably shouldn't be. ;) Geoff
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