From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 1 7:55:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93BF637B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 07:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sobek.openirc.co.uk ([62.252.9.151]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010601145520.FAFK290.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.openirc.co.uk>; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 15:55:20 +0100 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 15:55:18 +0100 (BST) From: George Reid X-Sender: greid@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: Cynic Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root shell In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010601164100.02768688@mail.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Cynic wrote: > how do I get the root account use other shell than csh? chsh(1), or more generally, vipw(8). > I have changed the root's shell entry in /etc/passwd to > /bin/bash, but still get csh upon logging in. This is because you're not supposed to do that...Use the correct tools for editing the password database (which isn't just /etc/passwd). -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message