From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 18: 4:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kingsqueak.org (cc737825-a.etntwn1.nj.home.com [24.3.202.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D817537B423 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by kingsqueak.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2514316E40; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:04:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:04:55 -0400 From: Chris To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it possible to discriminate between shell used in CLI and XWindowmode ? Message-ID: <20000820210455.B9781@kingsqueak.org> Reply-To: Chris References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 05:39:38PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 05:39:38PM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Concrete: I want to leave csh as root shell on the console and work as > root with bash in X Window is it somehow managable ? > > Regards My favorite way 'around' that is simply enable the user 'toor', use vipw, edit the passwd file for the same passwd as root and just define a different shell for it. I tend to prefer zsh, and learned my lesson long ago having a dynamically linked shell for the 'root' account. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message