From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jul 5 20:31:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7190F37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from njam.dhs.org (bkg8100by4lk.bc.hsia.telus.net [142.173.16.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA8AF43E3B for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:31:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) Received: from localhost (viktorlazlo@localhost) by njam.dhs.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g663V3s02005; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) X-Authentication-Warning: njam.dhs.org: viktorlazlo owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:31:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo X-X-Sender: viktorlazlo@njam.dhs.org To: James Cc: Dru , Subject: Re: Question about up-arrow when non-root In-Reply-To: <000d01c22498$a09455e0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> Message-ID: <20020705202753.L304-100000@njam.dhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The superuser account uses the tcsh shell, thus it has history and the up > > arrow works. By default, regular users get the sh shell which gives the > > behaviour you just described. As the superuser, you can use "vipw" to > > modify your existing user's shell to either "csh" or "tcsh". > > > > Dru vipw requires superuser privileges--you may also reset the shell type from within a normal user's login with chsh. If you're not sure what other ones are installed on your system they're listed in /etc/shells. Cheers, Viktor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message