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On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:24:39PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > Agreed.  I consider it a serious misfortune that FreeBSD doesn't use 
> > /bin/sh as root's shell.  On the other hand, it's easy enough to fix, 
> > so I haven't spent my time complaining about this.  :-)
> 
> All BSDs have, since a very long time ago, used /bin/csh as root's
> shell.

OpenBSD appears to use ksh, which is a POSIX shell:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/master.passwd?rev=1.47&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup