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Why is this not a good idea? The only reason I can think of it that you
want your root shell on the root hard drive. As many system use a
separate partition for /usr and that bash installs to /usr/local/bin per
default I can see how that can cause troubles. But are there any other
reasons? Unstability in bash? Unexpected behaivor causing more harm in a
root shell?

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:50:29PM +0100, Sniper wrote:
> I heard that changing root shell to bash is not good idea