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Date:      Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:04:46 -0600
From:      Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com>
To:        David Landgren <david@landgren.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bash - superuser
Message-ID:  <bc5b638504122009047a4f32ad@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <41C6B7A1.1090708@landgren.net>
References:  <41C6AC75.6020608@uol.com.br> <41C6B7A1.1090708@landgren.net>

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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:29:37 +0100, David Landgren <david@landgren.net> wrote:
> Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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 ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> 
> Don't.
> 
> Leave /bin/sh as your shell.

'Leave' /bin/sh as your shell makes it sound like /bin/sh is the
default root shell.  Did this change in FreeBSD 5.x?  It appears
that in 4.x, the root shell is /bin/csh by default, which [I believe]
is linked to /bin/tcsh.


-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate



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