Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:19:32 -0800 From: "Daniel Howard" <dannyman@toldme.com> To: "Pieter Donche" <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root /etc/csh Message-ID: <2a5241e00811101519k505dcaabvd59fecc19d283bc3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0811102239200.846@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> References: <20081110110805.GK1302@obspm.fr> <20081110161002.GA81960@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20081110203643.GH27646@obspm.fr> <200811102235.46971.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <Pine.GSO.4.63.0811102239200.846@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> wrote: > FreeBSD 7.0 comes with the user root with start up shell /bin/csh > As normal user I use bash (/usr/local/bin/bash installed) > I would prefer to have bash also when working as root (su). > Of course I can do > # bash > [root ~]# or I could change the startup shell in /etc/passwd, but would that > be a wise > thing to do or not? If your system is having a bad time, falling back to statically-linked /bin/csh can help you out in a jam, whereas pointing way off to /usr/local/bin/bash could spell trouble if say, you can not mount /usr. As prad pointed out, you can "su -m". I myself prefer "sudo -s". You could also just type "bash". Sincerely, -daniel -- http://dannyman.toldme.com
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