Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 18:24:23 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot banner project Message-ID: <ff3ef3b2621f16316effcf296f044d93@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050504.152439.71089989.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20050504113817.GD22956@empiric.icir.org> <20050504132429.GA2105@uk.tiscali.com> <5207b55e44478fa93e3689ad79b54f4d@mac.com> <20050504.152439.71089989.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On May 4, 2005, at 5:24 PM, 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. NEXTSTEP never did; and neither does OS X: 9-cube# nidump passwd . | grep root root:********:0:0::0:0:System Administrator:/private/var/root:/bin/sh daemon:*:1:1::0:0:System Services:/var/root:/usr/bin/false 10-cube# uname -a Darwin cube.pkix.net 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc Likewise for the majority of UNIX systems I am familiar with (Solaris, Ultrix, HP/UX). In the case of Linux, or a few other systems, they would use a POSIX shell like bash or ksh instead, which are almost entirely backwards-compatible with /bin/sh. -- -Chuck
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