From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 21:32:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41FC37B6B3 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 21:32:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e4F4WgD16543; Sun, 14 May 2000 22:32:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005150432.e4F4WgD16543@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Harry Putnam Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Virus.. Old but Nasty In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:32:42 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14 May 2000 18:29:07 -0700 Harry Putnam wrote: +------------------ | Laurence Berland writes: | | > Last I checked if you just change the root shell to bash it will do what | > you want. FreeBSD should prompt for the root shell when you boot up in | > single user anyway, so you can just tell it /bin/sh or /bin/csh then. | | If you set bash as root shell, at least for me, it breaks if you have | to login from an emergency `boot -s' because some of the libraries or | something that bash uses are not on the "/" root partition. +------------------ Please, just let the root account alone. It is far better to install and use something like sudo(8) than it is to muck about with the shell for the root user. If you find that you are logging in as root for extended sessions then you should re-think some of your admin habits. If you need an sh root login then just use the toor account that is already there. If you realy need bash then just start it once you login. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message