From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 14:55:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.bsdjournal.com (unknown [207.227.33.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7540E14D4C for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:55:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from general@shell.bsdjournal.com) Received: from localhost (general@localhost) by shell.bsdjournal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA18041; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:54:41 GMT (envelope-from general@shell.bsdjournal.com) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:54:41 +0000 (GMT) From: BSD Journal - general To: "Sloan, Kyle" Cc: "'Reinoud Koornstra'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: standard shell. 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 Uh, no. First of all, you really shouldnt do your every-day stuff as root, ie games, etc. Second of all, you do NOT edit the password file manually nor is it called /etc/password. If you absolutely have to change the shell, use vipw. -Patrick On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Sloan, Kyle wrote: > Try /etc/password. > > Be cautious of where you install bash though. It usually installs into > /usr/local/bin, which may not be available in the event of a system crash. > > You could set the password for the toor account, and leave its shell as > /bin/sh to get around this. > > Kyle Sloan > Data Communications Engineer > Oklahoma City Operations > Bell & Howell Information & Learning > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Reinoud Koornstra [mailto:Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 4:22 PM > To: Val Kilmer > Cc: Reinoud Koornstra; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: standard shell. > > > Dear Folks, > > In what file can i tell what the standard shell for the root user is? > I installed bash2 and want it as standard shell. > Bye, > > Reinoud. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > > www.mimesweeper.com > ********************************************************************** > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message