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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
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On Friday 24 December 2004 10:52 am, Josh Paetzel wrote:
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>
> 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