Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:58:06 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Dmitry Karasik <dk@plab.ku.dk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: toor Message-ID: <20001103095806.C81345@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <u66m5b700.fsf@plab.ku.dk>; from dk@plab.ku.dk on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:00:15PM %2B0100 References: <20001031012526.A12381@edgemaster.zombie.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010310356130.14845-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <20001031093623.A76382@wopr.caltech.edu> <u66m5b700.fsf@plab.ku.dk>
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Dmitry, On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:00:15PM +0100, Dmitry Karasik wrote: > Matthew> FreeBSD asks you what shell you want when you boot single-user. > Matthew> It defaults to /bin/sh. You will not screw yourself by setting > Matthew> root's shell to /usr/local/bin/wackysh. > > Unless your /usr is on a different partition. No, you still don't screw yourself. If you can't mount /usr for some reason, then you're going to be in single-user mode and you run /bin/sh or whatever instead. My point was that root's shell in /etc/passwd has no effect on single-user mode. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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