Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:52:01 -0500 From: Jeff Wirth <jeff.wirth@gmail.com> To: John Public <jhnpublic@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su command problem Message-ID: <5d2cf6920503290852f9f3a0b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050329162510.80553.qmail@web50101.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050329162510.80553.qmail@web50101.mail.yahoo.com>
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> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:25:10 -0800 (PST), John Public <jhnpublic@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thank you very much! I had checked the password file, > but had been focused on the mysql account. I only > just noticed that the root account was set to use > /bin/csh for it's shell. When I changed it to > /usr/local/bin/bash, suddenly everything started > working. It's usually considered dangerous to change root's shell outside of 'sh' or 'csh'. You may end up with a broken shell if you need to drop to single user mode. -jw
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