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Date:      Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:48:49 -0500
From:      mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
Cc:        "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>, Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net>, "'Cliff Sarginson'" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Root and the C Shell
Message-ID:  <3A379A60.1F0391F0@ocsinternet.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012121242430.63877-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com>

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Yes this is sound advice...I agree with doug use you .profile or .login for
shell changes...

Doug Barton wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Donald J . Maddox wrote:
>
> > While this is obviously a good policy if you are administering many
> > different platforms, it really doesn't matter that much on FreeBSD,
> > does it?  On FreeBSD, at entry to single-user mode, you are prompted
> > for the shell path, and it always defaults to /bin/sh, right?  Where
> > is the great danger here?
>
>         In not realizing that there are times and places where single user
> mode is not available. I will restate my point one final time, because
> frankly I have no idea what posessed me to enter into this discussion
> again, since I know better.
>
>         While YOU may never face a situation where you can't easily
> recover from a borked shell, the BEST practice is to leave your
> shells, for all of your accounts set to either /bin/sh or /bin/csh (i.e.,
> one of the shells that is built with the system) and use either .profile
> or .login to exec your preferred shell if it is available. Less paranoid
> solutions may very well work for you, however the above solution is the
> safest, both on FreeBSD and on other platforms.
>
> Doug
> --
>     So what I want to know is, where does the RED brick road go?
>
>         Do YOU Yahoo!?
>
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