Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:46:54 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "David Christensen" <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything? Message-ID: <p06240800c58dae0c7162@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <F763DD8CE6D8435981C4AE71F4C03983@p43400e> References: <F763DD8CE6D8435981C4AE71F4C03983@p43400e>
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At 2:09 PM -0800 1/4/09, David Christensen wrote:
>
>I have changed the root shell to Bash on another machine I use as a CVS
>server and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I've been wondering if
>I'm setting myself up for problems by doing so.
>
>
>Does anybody know if it's okay to change the root shell on FreeBSD
>7.0-RELEASE-i386?
What I do is add the following lines to /root/.login :
if ($?prompt) then
if ( -x /usr/local/bin/bash ) then
# echo "Switching to bash"
setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash
exec /usr/local/bin/bash -login
endif
endif
I've been doing this for at least 10 years. I haven't had any
problems with it, but Your Mileage Might Vary.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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