Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 20:13:02 +0200 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, utisoft@gmail.com Cc: nightrecon@verizon.net Subject: Re: How to move vi to /bin Message-ID: <200905142013.02473.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0905140338lf7b6968k8e8844550c9268b9@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb0fa7b70905130021t390bb560r4a1dd64ab3b2e79@mail.gmail.com> <200905132211.53066.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <b79ecaef0905140338lf7b6968k8e8844550c9268b9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 14 May 2009 12:38:30 Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/5/13 Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>: > > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 11:34:43 Michael Powell wrote: > >> Kind of like how those coming over from a > >> Linux environment all seem to want to change root's shell to bash, it > >> serves no purpose except foot-shooting. > > > > - csh cannot redirect stderr seperately from stdout > > - on pipes the exit status from the first command is the exit status of > > the total command > > - will not expand matches without a user provided part, for *every* > > component of a path > > > > There's plenty of reasons not to use csh and if you know what you're > > doing, BSD lets you. And no, I don't want to type exec zsh when I'm > > finally logged into the box that has a load of 100+. > > I think the problem with that is he meant changing the root shell to > /usr/local/bin/bash. You're better off using /bin/sh if you want a > Bourne-type shell, or using toor with /usr/local/bin/bash. sh is worse then csh. And I said if you know what you're doing. My root shell is less prone to break then the standard csh shell, because I compile it statically (and also on the / partition). On Thursday 14 May 2009 18:03:25 Chad Perrin wrote: > I've never understood the resistance to just use toor instead of root if > one wants a nonstandard administrative shell. Habit, mostly. toor is one way of doing things, just changing the shell is the other. Maybe it's my paranoia that I might be running software that does string matches for root logins, rather then uid to disallow access ;) -- Mel
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