Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:38:03 +1030 From: Michael Gratton <mike@vee.net> To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using bash as default shell for root Message-ID: <3C3A9AD3.1090803@vee.net> References: <3C3A18FC.13616.24E52F@localhost>
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Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > Statically linking bash, copying it to /bin and > updating /etc/shells solves the 1st problem, but it won't get updated > as the rest of the system (or the bash port) does. Perhaps you could build the port with "PREFIX=/" (and a few other bits of fine tuning to ensure it doesn't mess up things around "/" too much). I guess the question is, if you're installing into /bin, do you need another version in /usr/local/bin? Just install it once with the different prefix and you should be fine. > And I wasn't sure > there were any other issues to using bash as root's default shell. It is apparently incompatible with sh in a few areas, but I've never run into any problems using it for day-to-day work as root. I'd suggest you would probably be safe using it as the default shell, IMHO, of course. 8) Mike. -- Mike Gratton <mike@vee.net> Leader in leachate production and transmission since 1976. <http://web.vee.net/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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