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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:38:40 -0700
From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
To: BSD Journal - general <general@shell.bsdjournal.com>
Cc: "Sloan, Kyle" <ksloan@datatimes.com>,
	"'Reinoud Koornstra'" <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl>,
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Subject: Re: standard shell.
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On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 04:54:41PM +0000, BSD Journal - general wrote:
> Uh, no. First of all, you really shouldnt do your every-day stuff as root,
> ie games, etc. Second of all, you do NOT edit the password file manually
> nor is it called /etc/password.
> 
> If you absolutely have to change the shell, use vipw.
> 
> -Patrick
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Sloan, Kyle wrote:
> 
> > Try /etc/password.
> > 
> > Be cautious of where you install bash though.  It usually installs into
> > /usr/local/bin, which may not be available in the event of a system crash.
> > 
> > You could set the password for the toor account, and leave its shell as
> > /bin/sh to get around this.
> > 
> > Kyle Sloan
> > Data Communications Engineer
> > Oklahoma City Operations
> > Bell & Howell Information & Learning
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Reinoud Koornstra [mailto:Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 4:22 PM
> > To: Val Kilmer
> > Cc: Reinoud Koornstra; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: standard shell.
> > 
> > 
> > Dear Folks,
> > 
> > In what file can i tell what the standard shell for the root user is?
> > I installed bash2 and want it as standard shell.
> > Bye,
> > 
> > Reinoud.
> > 


	It's nice that more and more general info of this nature 
	is getting out there.   Anyone who is new to  *BSD might
	check the AnswerMan column in DaemonNews.

	There was a write-up on exactly this (root/toor/shells, &c)
	recently.


	www.daemonnews.org

	gary





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