From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 15 14:10:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415BB37B81C for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 14:10:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from eidiko4 (ppp3.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.18]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA08573; Mon, 15 May 2000 23:09:35 +0200 (GMT) Message-ID: <002101bfbeb1$ec3a5d40$12c536d4@eidiko4> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" To: , "Harry Putnam" References: Subject: Re: Unix Virus.. Old but Nasty Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:09:45 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hahaha that was the best thing I've read today :-) thank you Harry, for such a good laugh. I really needed it, after a tiring day's work. > 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. That is exactly what the purpose of the toor account is, as far as I know. If you are daring enough, you can change the shell of root to /usr/local/bin/bash and have toor log into that /bin/csh beast. I always used to leave root's shell to /bin/csh (to keep single user mode from bursting into pieces) and change toor's shell to either bash or ksh. Thus, I can still do from simple user shells: % exec su - toor and have my superuser bash, without messing around with root's shell. The rationale behind this is that if you can stand /bin/csh it is a rather logical thing to have it as root's shell, since a lot of old Unix hackers might be emotionally attached to the fact, and what else... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message