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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:04:55 -0400
From:      Chris <kingsqueak@kingsqueak.org>
To:        Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is it possible to discriminate between shell used in CLI and XWindowmode ?
Message-ID:  <20000820210455.B9781@kingsqueak.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10008201737510.5570-100000@sun34>; from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 05:39:38PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10008201737510.5570-100000@sun34>

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On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 05:39:38PM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> Concrete: I want to leave csh  as root shell on the console and work as
> root with bash in X Window is it somehow managable ?
> 
> Regards

My favorite way 'around' that is simply enable the user 'toor', use
vipw, edit the passwd file for the same passwd as root and just define a
different shell for it.  I tend to prefer zsh, and learned my lesson
long ago having a dynamically linked shell for the 'root' account.


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