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Date:      Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:07:16 +0100
From:      Gerhard Meier <gemei2@web.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bash - superuser
Message-ID:  <20041220120620.GA68520@duplo.dahoam>
In-Reply-To: <41C6AC75.6020608@uol.com.br>
References:  <41C6AC75.6020608@uol.com.br>

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On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
> I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
> 
> I have installed bash from ports.
> 
> How is possible to use bash in root account ?

Do not change the shell of the root account. If you have /usr or
/usr/local on a separate partition, and you cannot mount for some
reason, you wont be able to fix that, without booting from
another device.

But you can change the shell of the toor user, who has also a uid
of 0.

/GM



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