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To: "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: roots shell
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"Bill A. K." wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> is there any way to change root's default shell from csh to bash.

	Yes there is, but it's a bad idea. Several people have already pointed out
some reasons why. An additional alternative to su -m is to put the
following in /root/.login:

[ -x /usr/local/bin/bash] && exec /usr/local/bin/bash

	That will start bash for you if it's available, and if it isn't you can
still log in. 

> i've already changed the path to my shell in both /etc/passwd and
> /etc/master.passwd but it didn't change it.

	You should use vipw for editing, don't ever edit them directly. 
 
> and i would also like to know how to customize my bash prompt with my
> current directory for example.

	http://freebsd.simplenet.com/Bash-prompts.txt

Good luck,

Doug


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