Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:20:14 -0400 From: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why csh on Root? Message-ID: <eh7u2f$o87$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <200610191303.k9JD322j081114@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200610191303.k9JD322j081114@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Martin McCormick wrote:
> Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD has csh as the
> default root shell? Nothing really wrong with it except that I
The stock answer is that bash is not guaranteed to be available,
as it is neither in the standard installation package, nor is it
on the / partition. After you have installed it, it will go in
the /usr path, which is often a separate partition. If that gets
corrupted, and you've changed your root shell to be /usr/local/bin/bash,
you won't be able to login as root! Even if you were to copy it
to /bin, there might be other dependencies that won't be available.
There was a recent thread here that talked about how to work around
this. Personally, I just type 'bash' as the first thing when I login
as root in single user mode.
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Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog:
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UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.
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