From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 17:24:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from damoe.wireless-isp.net (damoe.wireless-isp.net [208.61.227.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6403637B502 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from amavis@localhost) by damoe.wireless-isp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA27454 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:24:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net) Received: from localhost (keen@localhost) by damoe.wireless-isp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA26972; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:24:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net) X-Authentication-Warning: damoe.wireless-isp.net: keen owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:24:13 -0400 (EDT) From: David Raistrick To: Matt Rudderham Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Loren Koss , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: I deleted my shell by mistake!! 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, 3 Oct 2000, Matt Rudderham wrote: > >don't don't change root's shell! > Why should the root shell not be changed? I am also kind of new I guess. I The theory that I have always heard about changing the root shell is not to change it to something that is not based in / . The reasoning behind this is that if you lose your /usr (or whatever) slice, you still have access to your root account. Of course, I've never had a problem with this (mind you, I never managed to delete the shell I was using whilst in multiuser mode...)since when you boot single user, it /asks/ you what shell to use, and doesnt give a rats ass what is in the master.passwd file..... This is the only theory I've heard as to not changing your shell to a shell not based off of /...(mind you, if you go deleting /bin/sh or something, you're pretty much hosed all around..though i guess that does leave you /bin/csh to use in single user to get things working after a damn good bit of work...) Anyway, I'd love to hear a sound reason why to never change your root shell at all.. (I've never heard of that before, either...) And any more theories about not changing it to something off of /, if you have them.;) ....david (100% tcsh since '89) -- David Raistrick Digital Wireless Communications davidr@dwcinet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message