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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:02:23 -0300
From:      Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADSUP] the default root shell is now /bin/sh
Message-ID:  <9c20d9f0-776d-8550-8599-efa27ad792dd@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20211020074050.qmxf5z5haranx4zi@aniel.nours.eu>
References:  <20211020074050.qmxf5z5haranx4zi@aniel.nours.eu>

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On 20/10/21 04:40, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Following up on the proposal which happened last month, /bin/sh is now the
> default shell for the root user.
> 
> As claimed during that proposal, I have so far no intention to change anything
> more: I won't remove or modify the 'toor' user, neither modify the root gecos.
> 
> By popular demand on the thread about the proposal the following bindings have
> been set by default:
> 
> navigation through history "ala" csh via the up and down arrow
> navigation on the command line via ctrl+arrow (left/right) jumps from words to
> words
> An alias on fc -l named "history", so the history command to exist.
> 
> etcupdate will silently switch to sh(1) the first time, for people who wants to
> keep root on csh, they will have to run:
>   $ chsh -s csh
> 
> The next upgrade will keep that setting

Will sh config be upgraded to reflect all recent changes as well or we 
need to do it manually?

-- 
Renato Botelho



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