Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:40:37 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root and the C Shell Message-ID: <00121019403703.01067@buffy> In-Reply-To: <20001210180621.A20292@student.uu.se> References: <00121017490501.01067@buffy> <20001210180621.A20292@student.uu.se>
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On Sunday 10 December 2000 18:06, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:49:05PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> > Hello,
> > A simple question, I loathe and detest the C shell.
> > Will anything break if I change root's login shell to
> > be something (anything!) other than csh ?
>
> No. You can change it to whatever shell you like. Just remeber that it can
> be a good idea to have whatever shell root is using statically linked.
> This reduces problems when /usr isn't mounted or the dynamic loader has
> broken.
>
Yes I realise that. I was really tryg to vaoid any snaeky suprise
C shell scripts .. and I just happened to notice "toor" .. jolly good.
> One common thing to do is to leave root's shell alone and create another
> user with uid 0 and whatever shell you like.
> ('toor' in the default /etc/passwd is an example of this)
>
> > I wouldnt imagine it would cause a problem.
> > If it does that is a negative point for FreeBSD
> > in my view. Then it will make friends with
> > the second negative point I have over FreeBSD ..
> > it's appaling mis-use of /usr/local .. mmm.. local means
> > errm local !
>
> Yes, and none of the standard components are installed under /usr/local
> so I don't quite see what the problem is. The only things that end up uner
> /usr/local are the things that are locally installed.
>
I am not used to seeing /usr/local used to profliagtely on the Unix systems
I work on .. ah well..
> > Apart from that FreeBSd gets lots of positives except... (to be
> > continued)
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