From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 5:39:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cfdnet.me.tuns.ca (CFDnet.me.TUNS.Ca [134.190.50.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABC737BD3E for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 05:39:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by cfdnet.me.tuns.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA59179; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:35:27 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:35:27 -0300 (ADT) From: Theo Bell To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Adam Hefetz , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with root In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I always leave my root shell as /bin/sh and if I want to use a different shell I type the shell name at the prompt after logging in: screwdriver# screwdriver# bash bash-2.03# But, normally I just su to root using the -m option which lets you keep your environment the same and consequently, your shell. Hope this helps.. Theo On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I would add that to follow convention, leave the root user shell set to > /bin/sh and use advanced (sic) shells with toor. You might notice that > toor is called "Bourne Again Super User" in passwd as that user is > intended for use with shells such as bash or even tcsh. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message