From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 18:28:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camel.ethereal.net (fraenatus.ethereal.net [204.107.140.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61D814CBE for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mistwolf@camel.ethereal.net) Received: (from mistwolf@localhost) by camel.ethereal.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id SAA10374; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:28:24 -0700 From: Jamie Norwood To: Todd Backman Cc: Don Sutter , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change root shell Message-ID: <19990625182824.A10339@ethereal.net> References: <19990625165801.A4321@uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Todd Backman on Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 06:00:35PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 06:00:35PM -0700, Todd Backman wrote: > > I've been told it's a no-no to change root's shell to bash in the event > that /usr does not get mounted. 'exec bash' will only load bash for that > session and goes away after you log out... I've always made it a point to install tcsh in /bin so that I can use it as root. Besides, correct me if I am wrong, but in a panic situation starting a shell, it defaults to SH no matter what /etc/password says. So why does it matter which shell you have it set to use in normal usage? Jamie -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+:+ a--(?) C++++ UB++++ P+ L--(++) E-- W++(--) N++ O? K w(---) O?>+ M?>+ V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP->++ t+(*) 5+++ X++ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D++ G e>+ h--- r+++ y+++** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message