From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 10:40:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7289D14BFA for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:40:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA29203; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:38:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:38:21 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: cjc26@cornell.edu Cc: "Bill A. K." , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: roots shell Message-ID: <19990818103820.A29062@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <002b01bee97f$2a3fdf60$01010101@bopper> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from cjc26@cornell.edu on Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:50:39PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:50:39PM -0400, cjc26@cornell.edu wrote: > It's probably a good idea to leave root's shell as csh, just in case > something horrible happens and /usr can't be mounted. If something horrible happens and /usr can't be mounted, you're not likely to make it to multi-user mode. When you boot in single-user mode, you are offered your choice of shell, defaulting to /bin/sh, so this is a non-issue on FreeBSD. > There should be a user called `toor' which uses bash as its shell; log > in as that instead. As shipped, "toor" has a shell of /bin/sh, as FreeBSD doesn't have bash in the base system. -- Matthew Hunt * Inertia is a property http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message