Re: Root's Shell

[dan weeks <danimal@danimal.org>]

On 1.March.2001 "David S." chittered like a monkey:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:44:19PM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:34:37AM -0800, Alex Le Fevre wrote:
> > >How can I change root's default shell? 
> > 
> > Whatever you do DO NOT CHANGE ROOTS SHELL!! you will shoot
> > yourself in the foot someday.
> > 
> > You have many alternatives.
> > 
> > Learn to type, you can use "ksh", "exec ksh" or such.
> > 
> > Make a new user with uid 0 and have the alternative shell for
> > that user.
> > 
> > Use sudo, "sudo /bin/ksh"
> > 
> > If you still whish to change the root shell you can use vipw(8).
> > 
> 
> As the poster asserts, it's not a good idea to change root's shell.
> But if you must, make sure that root has a statically linked shell
> that lives in the '/' partition - probably in '/bin'. Otherwise, 
> you won't have a shell if you have to repair your system in 
> single-user mode.

does your system not ask you where /bin/sh is when you go into single user
mode?   Mine does and I just use it if I am in single user, otherwise I
have a static tcsh in /usr/local/bin.  works fine on all my systems.

-d

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