From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 15 9: 5:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (manatee.mammalia.org [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF40837B5C7 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 09:05:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@mammalia.org) Received: from localhost (rjoseph@localhost) by manatee.mammalia.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10661; Mon, 15 May 2000 09:05:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@mammalia.org) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:05:24 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright To: Bob Johnson Cc: reader@newsguy.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Virus.. Old but Nasty In-Reply-To: <39200B67.807D0326@eng.ufl.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 On Mon, 15 May 2000, Bob Johnson wrote: > > Date: 14 May 2000 17:59:49 -0700 > > From: Harry Putnam > > Subject: Unix Virus.. Old but Nasty > > > [...]> Joking aside, I've had about enough of the csh or sh shells. Enough > > that it made me try to get rid of it. Easily done for users but not > > so, Root. > > > > That's sort of why sh is the default shell for root. Changing it affects > a lot of other things. Why mess with something that works? (read my next > comment before answering that) > > [...] > > > > Well I hope a few of you get a laugh out of this anecdote. But I'd > > really really like to have someone explain to me how to setup root > > with a bash shell. That nasty old csh really does suck. > > > To use root with a bash shell, just log in as toor (or su to "toor", of > course). That's exactly why the "toor" user exists. > The easy answer is to never log in as root. I haven't for months. Use 'su -m' from a normal user account to keep your user environment. I'd prefer to keep the root account terse and unconfigured, it's a good reason not to go there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message