From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 17:36:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F22B337B66C for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e940aTD18271; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:36:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:36:29 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Matt Rudderham Cc: Loren Koss , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I deleted my shell by mistake!! Message-ID: <20001003173628.T27736@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001003170823.R27736@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@researcher.com on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:12:15PM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Matt Rudderham [001003 17:14] wrote: > >if you have a root shell open all you need to do is run 'vipw' > > > >don't don't change root's shell! > Hi alfred, > Why should the root shell not be changed? I am also kind of new I guess. I > have it set to bash, rather than the default. It's simple, someone with a lot more experiance than I had told me not to and I've never had these "oops i broke root's shell" embarassing moments. Now someone with a lot more experiance is telling you the same. Seriously, how difficult is it to type 'zsh' after su'ing to root? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message