Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:09:45 +0300 From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> Subject: Re: Unix Virus.. Old but Nasty Message-ID: <002101bfbeb1$ec3a5d40$12c536d4@eidiko4> References: <m2zopswrui.fsf@reader.ptw.com>
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hahaha
that was the best thing I've read today :-)
thank you Harry, for such a good laugh.
I really needed it, after a tiring day's work.
> Well I hope a few of you get a laugh out of this anecdote. But I'd
> really really like to have someone explain to me how to setup root
> with a bash shell. That nasty old csh really does suck.
That is exactly what the purpose of the toor account is, as far as I
know.
If you are daring enough, you can change the shell of root to
/usr/local/bin/bash
and have toor log into that /bin/csh beast.
I always used to leave root's shell to /bin/csh (to keep single user
mode
from bursting into pieces) and change toor's shell to either bash or
ksh.
Thus, I can still do from simple user shells:
% exec su - toor
and have my superuser bash, without messing around with root's shell.
The rationale behind this is that if you can stand /bin/csh it is a
rather logical
thing to have it as root's shell, since a lot of old Unix hackers might
be
emotionally attached to the fact, and what else...
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