From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 11:47:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1073F16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:47:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dave.horsfall.org (mrdavi2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.75.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F0E43D49 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:47:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dave.horsfall.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id j24Blrm22895 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:47:54 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:47:52 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050303140239.GB17484@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Message-ID: References: <4226C4DF.3050806@winbot.co.uk> <029801c51fd2$783a7f60$0100000a@wouter> <20050303140239.GB17484@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Renaming root account X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:47:59 -0000 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