From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 3 10: 1:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E04637B4D7 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:01:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA3I1MT22802; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:01:22 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:01:22 -0800 (PST) From: To: Matthew Hunt Cc: Dmitry Karasik , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: toor In-Reply-To: <20001103095806.C81345@wopr.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can also run a shell from /stand. Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Matthew Hunt wrote: > Dmitry, > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:00:15PM +0100, Dmitry Karasik wrote: > > > Matthew> FreeBSD asks you what shell you want when you boot single-user. > > Matthew> It defaults to /bin/sh. You will not screw yourself by setting > > Matthew> root's shell to /usr/local/bin/wackysh. > > > > Unless your /usr is on a different partition. > > No, you still don't screw yourself. If you can't mount /usr for > some reason, then you're going to be in single-user mode and you run > /bin/sh or whatever instead. My point was that root's shell in > /etc/passwd has no effect on single-user mode. > > -- > Matthew Hunt * UNIX is a lever for the > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message