Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:12:08 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash - superuser Message-ID: <200412241112.08777.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <200412241652.59449.josh@tcbug.org> References: <41C6EE24.4080606@vilot.com> <200412241006.47078.algould@datawok.com> <200412241652.59449.josh@tcbug.org>
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On Friday 24 December 2004 10:52 am, Josh Paetzel wrote: <-snip-> > > I've always been curious as to why you can't(shouldn't?) just change > the shell that root uses. I think it has to do with the fact that some shells executables are in /bin and others are in /usr/local/bin. Root users should use a shell in /bin so that if something goes wrong and the /usr partition doesn't get mounted during bootup, root can still use its default shell. Andrew Gould
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