From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 6: 7:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A4F37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from posti.pp.htv.fi (posti.pp.htv.fi [212.90.64.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0810E43FC3 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi) Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([212.90.71.47]) by posti.pp.htv.fi (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9AD6TZ00271 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:06:29 +0300 (EETDST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: metis@pop.clinet.fi Message-Id: Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:06:26 +0300 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Petri Riihikallio Subject: Root shell [was: How to create another account with root privileges?] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Also, never change the shell for root. It needs to be as it is for some >things to work right. I have been using bash for root shell some time now without noticing any problems. My bash is statically linked and I have moved it to /bin. What kind of problems should I expect? I even tried to replace /bin/sh with bash, but some startup script used 'set' builtin with -T option. Bash didn't like that. I didn't dig into that deeper. -- Cheers, Petri Metis / Petri Riihikallio GSM: +358 400 505 939 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message