Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:35:06 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root Message-ID: <202109292335.18TNZ6cc006285@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <20210922083645.4vnoajyvwq6wfhdf@aniel.nours.eu> References: <20210922083645.4vnoajyvwq6wfhdf@aniel.nours.eu>
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In message <20210922083645.4vnoajyvwq6wfhdf@aniel.nours.eu>, Baptiste Daroussin writes: > Hello, > > TL;DR: this is not a proposal to deorbit csh from base!!! > > For years now, csh is the default root shell for FreeBSD, csh can be confusin > g > as a default shell for many as all other unix like settled on a bourne shell > compatible interactive shell: zsh, bash, or variant of ksh. > > Recently our sh(1) has receive update to make it more user friendly in > interactive mode: > * command completion (thanks pstef@) > * improvement in the emacs mode, to make it behave by default like other shel > ls > * improvement in the vi mode (in particular the vi edit to respect $EDITOR) > * support for history as described by POSIX. > > This makes it a usable shell by default, which is why I would like to propose > to > make it the default shell for root starting FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE (not MFCed) > > If no strong arguments has been raised until October 15th, I will make this > proposal happen. > > Again just in case: THIS IS NOT A PROPOSAL TO REMOVE CSH FROM BASE! Having used /bin/sh as my root shell on all my FreeBSD machines, here and at $JOB, except for only one, I feel this is perfectly reasonable. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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