Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:10:41 +1030 From: Adam Smith <adam@internode.com.au> To: Gerhard Meier <gemei2@web.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash - superuser Message-ID: <20041220134041.GH801@internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20041220120620.GA68520@duplo.dahoam> References: <41C6AC75.6020608@uol.com.br> <20041220120620.GA68520@duplo.dahoam>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:07:16PM +0100, Gerhard Meier said: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: > > I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2. > > > > I have installed bash from ports. > > > > How is possible to use bash in root account ? > > Do not change the shell of the root account. If you have /usr or > /usr/local on a separate partition, and you cannot mount for some > reason, you wont be able to fix that, without booting from > another device. More to the point, you should not change the shell to something outside of the / partition. For example, you can change it to 'tcsh' or something like that, as it exists in /bin. -- Adam Smith Internode : http://www.internode.on.net Phone : (08) 8228 2999
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