From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 13:53:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tankgrrl.bridget.mindriot.net (D5960.DIALUP.CORNELL.EDU [128.253.157.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0752014F26 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:53:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc26@cornell.edu) Received: from localhost (cjc26@localhost) by tankgrrl.bridget.mindriot.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00611; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:55:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc26@cornell.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: tankgrrl.bridget.mindriot.net: cjc26 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:55:16 -0400 (EDT) From: a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality X-Sender: cjc26@tankgrrl To: Matthew Hunt Cc: "Bill A. K." , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: roots shell In-Reply-To: <19990818103820.A29062@wopr.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Matthew Hunt wrote: | 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. Oops, you're right..I was thinking of Slowaris. | > 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. Sh, bash, what is difference? ;) -- cliff crawford http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/ There are more stars in the sky than there are -><- grains of sand on all the beaches of the world. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message