Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:27:15 +1000 From: Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net> To: Michael Henry <mhenry@pgrad.cs.usyd.edu.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing shell Message-ID: <19990917132715.A1509@blues.ghis.net> In-Reply-To: <19990917031515.4383B14DDB@hub.freebsd.org> References: <128e5100.251309c3@aol.com> <19990917031515.4383B14DDB@hub.freebsd.org>
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[Reply sent to -questions, this doesn't belong on -newbies] On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 at 13:15:06 +1000, Michael Henry wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to change the root shell from csh to bash? The default root shell is sh, not csh. > It is my understanding that changing root's shell is A Bad Thing. This has been covered a *ton* of times on the lists. It's not a big deal with FreeBSD because you can always go into single-user mode where you're prompted for a shell if you mess up root's shell. > You shouldn't be running as root often enough for it to be an > inconvenience anyway. Good point :-) > There is an account "toor" which also has UID 0, and uses bash > as it's login shell. Not by default. It also uses sh. What I usually do is set a password for toor, leave it's shell as sh, and change root's to tcsh so if needed, I can fall back to toor. To answer the original question, man chfn, man chsh, and man vipw. Take your pick :-) - Jim -- - Jim Mock - jim@blues.ghis.net - systems administrator - ghis.NET - - work: http://www.ghis.net/ - personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ - - FreeBSD 'zine: http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - - The FreeBSD Project -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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