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To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Annelise Anderson wrote:

>    Note: Do not change root's shell. It must be either sh or csh, because
>    otherwise you may not have a working shell when the system puts you
>    into single user mode. When you use su -m to become root, you will

When you go into single user mode, if roots shell is unavailable it
promtps you for a shell to use (type path anm,e of shell or return for
/bin/sh)....At least I think it did but I haven't been single user for a
while...

Andrew