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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Nessus <jandrese@vt.edu>
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Subject: Re: How can I chang my root shell
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Nessus wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 gippolit@ccsmtp2.eccs.com wrote:
> 
> =)     How do I change my root shell
> =)
> =)
> You don't want to do this.  Login as a regular user and su to root
> instead, it will keep the original user's shell (assuming you don't use
> the -l option)  
> The reason for this:
> Assume you change root's shell to /usr/local/bin/tcsh, then later on,
> something breaks in your rc, /usr won't be mounted and root won't have a
> shell.  

This is not correct.  When the system boots to single-user mode, it 
prompts for a shell, defaulting to sh.
 
> ::     Jason Andresen      :. . . . . . . . . :   Running FreeBSD and    ::



 Ben

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