From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 9: 9:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 09:09:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C323B37B400 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:09:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA62584; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:08:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com Message-ID: <3A365BA7.DD603C89@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:08:55 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Bye Cc: "'Cliff Sarginson'" , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Root and the C Shell References: <886CA0C095C5D411B95400508B6F741286606E@ukcamexch4.cam.uk.internal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Bye wrote: > > I don't like csh either, and have never come to grief using > bash as my root shell (under FreeBSD. Linux (RH of some kind) > was not so forgiving...) I don't think there is anything that > requires root's shell to be a specific one (except dogma, aka > tradition). You left out of your list the wisdom and experience of people who have spent years administering unix machines in a variety of environments and situations. The fact that you, in your limited experience have never had any problems waving a loaded gun at your foot doesn't mean that it's safe to do it. I don't mean to sound like a hardass here, but I'm sick and tired of this, "_I_ do it, so it MUST be ok." line of (alleged) reasoning. You are free to do whatever you want to do on your boxes, and I'm not going to argue that point with you. If all you're running is a desktop workstation that you can reach over and restart at the touch of a switch, you probably never will run into a problem with a shell for root on some other partition. However, it's clear that the BEST course of action that covers more situations more appropriately is to make your root shell one of the staticly linked shells that is built with the system. Doug -- So what I want to know is, where does the RED brick road go? Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message