Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:02:22 +0100 From: Kristian Holdich <kjholdich@yahoo.co.uk> To: Kjell Midtseter <la3sg@frisurf.no> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions Message-ID: <1089468142.26300.46.camel@slide.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <40F00DDD.7772.12F6CBB@localhost> References: <40F00DDD.7772.12F6CBB@localhost>
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On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 14:40, Kjell Midtseter wrote: > On 10 Jul 2004 at 10:03, Kristian Holdich wrote: > > > Speaking of root, i'm so used to Bash i'd like to switch to it for the > > root user - is there any gotchas with moving bash to /bin and updating > > /etc/shells to allow it? > >From my notes: > -------- > Use FreeBSD's password file manipulation utility, vipw, to > modify root's default shell. At a root prompt, type vipw. A copy > of the /etc/passwd file will be displayed. Use standard vi > editing commands to change root's default shell from /bin/csh > (all of the way at the end of the first line) to > /usr/local/bin/bash. While you're already editing the file, go > ahead and change root's unofficial name 'Charlie &' to 'Super- > Nina' or any other name that envisions Superman, etc. When you > get mail from root (e.g. from the cron jobs that run every > night), it'll now be maked as coming from 'Super-Nina' and not > 'Charlie &'...just a little bit nicer. Save & exit. > ----------- > GL from kjell > There's one glaring problem with that, if for some reason you need to go into single user mode under FreeBSD's default slicing scheme root wont have a shell as /usr isn't mounted. It's always good practice to keep the shell root uses in /sbin or /bin. You can change the shell root, or any other user uses by using chpass also, and so long as the shell is in /etc/shells it will be valid. I was actually more interested in understanding whether any critical scripts would start barfing if the shell got changed, I know on Solaris I got into the habit of keeping root using /sbin/sh.
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