Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:16:52 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it possible to discriminate between shell used in CLI and XWindowmode ? Message-ID: <200008201716.e7KHGq265998@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10008201737510.5570-100000@sun34>
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:39:38 +0200 (MET DST) Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
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| Concrete: I want to leave csh as root shell on the console and work as
| root with bash in X Window is it somehow managable ?
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| Regards
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start an xterm then run "su -" in it, finaly run "bash --login".
At that point you will have a bash shell as user root and run all root's
.profile and .bashrc stuff
Personaly I use sudo for occasional root access.
good luck
chris
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