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Date:      Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:47:52 +1100 (EST)
From:      Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Renaming root account
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.61.0503042237090.22480@dave.horsfall.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050303140239.GB17484@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
References:  <4226C4DF.3050806@winbot.co.uk> <029801c51fd2$783a7f60$0100000a@wouter> <20050303140239.GB17484@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>

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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> In my opinion, absolutely none at all.  People should never change the
> default shell of root from /bin/csh and "toor" is just a hack to please
> those who are too bored to type: % exec bash

I'm not sure what's worse: using anything other than /bin/sh for root's 
shell, or using /bin/csh for *anything*.

Yes, I know it's not the fundamentally broken original CSH, but I still 
get the willies whenever I see it.

-- Dave



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