Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 02:06:02 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zsh alias question Message-ID: <20000122020602.A3078@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001211452090.25613-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000120180954.C866@hades.hell.gr> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001211452090.25613-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 02:54:37PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >I used vipw and added the home directory at the end of the `toor' line. > > > > toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:/bin/sh > > So does toor need a home directory in order to have a different > password from root? At this point, when i su or login as toor, when > i run passwd or chsh, it references root. I have them both pointing at /root, as you can see from: % head -2 /etc/passwd root:*:0:0:Superuser:/root:/bin/csh toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:/usr/local/bin/bash They can have the same home directory. The files they will be using will be the same, except for the shell startup scripts. But each shell keeps it's startup in a different script, so this is not a problem. I keep my Bourne shell aliases in /root/.shrc -- the terminal setup and other stuff needed for login and interactive shells in /root/.profile -- the Bash specific prompt setup in ~/.bashrc (which calls .profile to do the rest of the work), and nothing in /root/.bash_profile ;) The /root/.cshrc and /root/.login files are the stock versions provided with my release of FreeBSD (3.4-STABLE). About the `zsh/su -m' question, I don't really know why this happens. Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "Don't let your schooling interfere with your education." [Mark Twain] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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