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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2019 22:45:54 +0000
From:      Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r343416 - head/bin/sh
Message-ID:  <20190124224554.GA23558@v2>
In-Reply-To: <201901242355.x0ONt4Xl085460@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201901242334.x0ONYpNU047048@repo.freebsd.org> <201901242355.x0ONt4Xl085460@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On 0124T1555, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > Author: trasz
> > Date: Thu Jan 24 23:34:51 2019
> > New Revision: 343416
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/343416
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Install .shrc for root, and set PS1 for the toor account.
> 
> And a dozen other aliases :-(

Six, and they are exactly the same as for ordinary users.
But yeah, I can see the point of not defining any aliases
by default for the root user.  Would the change be acceptable
if the aliases were commented out?  This would be still quite
close to the situation for csh.

> Please do not contaiminate the prestine environment with
> personal preferences.  In the start of the project we
> did a great deal of work to remove and eliminate these
> types of things, only the few csh aliases where retained.

Indeed, and those are pretty much the same aliases.

> This is really the domain of a systems administrator to
> decide and making work for them to clean this out is
> not going to make them happy.

Problem is, we're in a strage situation where we ship with
root shell which is just broken - basic shell syntax doesn't
work - and the out-of-box alternative provides you with
a VMS prompt.  Not the best first impression to make, I'd say.

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