Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:24:32 -0700 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why we don't mess with root's shell: Re: Need help withRoot shell? Message-ID: <374DB810.4111@echidna.com> References: <199905271738.KAA14975@mina.sr.hp.com>
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Darryl Okahata wrote:
>
> Pete Vanderburgh <peterv@verio.net> wrote:
>
> > Just for the record, I am currently running FreeBSD 3.1 Stable on a
> > Pentium 133, using IceWm for X-Windows, and yes, my root shell is bash.
>
> Perhaps the biggest issue with changing the root shell is that
> whatever you use, it must be on the root ("/") partition. If you follow
> the recommended guidelines (recommended by the install routines, that
> is), "/usr" is a separate partition. That means that
> "/usr/local/bin/bash" (for example) is on a partition different that
> "/". This will cause problems if you try to login as root and the /usr
> partition is not mounted; since /usr is not mounted, /usr/local/bin/bash
> doesn't exist, and you won't be able to login.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if /usr won't mount (as in a filesystem
problem), you will have a *lot* more problems than finding bash - for
example, getty, named and inetd won't run.
I believe in this case, you will have to resort to single user mode, in
which case there is NO problem with bash being the default root shell, as
with FreeBSD, you can choose sh (it's the default choice) when starting in
single user mode.
--
Graeme Tait - Echidna
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