Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:45:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to create another account with root privileges ? Message-ID: <200210100545.g9A5j0Zl033380@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20021010003307.C41584-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@video2video.com> wrote: > What -is- that toor (root backwards) account for anyways?? It has /bin/sh as login shell instead of /bin/csh. Of course it's pretty much useless, as you can use "su -m" to get the shell that you want, no matter which login shell is configured for the root account. > Is there a command similar to vipw that uses a simpler editor, like pico? I'd suggest you read the vipw(8) manpage. Then you will probably want to do something like this: # export EDITOR=pico # vipw > I always log in 100% of the time to my box as root and my shell is tcsh Big mistake. > Does it matter that (I think) I changed the shell for root? It does not matter, and you shouldn't do that. It is advisable to log in as normal user, and _only_ su to root when you really need to have superuser priviledges. Using "su -m" will give you the same shell that you have as normal user, no matter which login shell is set for the root account, and it will also use your own shell profiles. This is particularly useful when multiple people are admi- nistrating a machine -- everyone can use his own favourite shell when working as root, without having to set up any- thing special. By the way, you can go back to your normal user shell with the "suspend" command, and return to the root shell with the "fg" command, so you don't have to use "su" and type the root password again and again. When going to single-user mode, init asks you for the shell to be used (/bin/sh being the default), so there is really no point in changing root's login shell. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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