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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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