Date: 16 Apr 2000 01:49:02 -0700 From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <vqcya6e8m81.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Peter Wemm's message of "Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:18:05 -0700" References: <20000415231805.33B311CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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* From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> * IMHO, the way to keep most people happy (or least unhappy :-]) is to finish * the tcsh thing, and change root's shell to /bin/sh and probably change the * default new-user shell to sh as well if it isn't already. I agree with everything except for this part. The root's shell in BSD has always been csh for as long as I can remember, and it will violate POLA to change it now. (This is from a person who will immediately run bash in single-user mode if /usr/local is available and sh -E if it is not, so don't take it as a csh crusade.) Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "default new-user shell" but if you leave the shell part empty in the password entry for a new user, he will get sh. This has also been the behavior of BSD for as long as I can remember (and it probably goes back to the single Unix days) and obviously doesn't need any changing either. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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