From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 16:18:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615E914FCB for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07575; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:14:08 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:14:07 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Richard Belanger , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > do not, i repeat, do NOT change your root shell to bash, if the machine > ever has problems and can't get to /usr/local/* then you will be > royally hosed if you can't log in as root. It's *always* possible to log into root by booting into single-user, and using the default /bin/sh as the shell. -- Jonathan Chen | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message