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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:12:08 -0600
From:      "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
To:        Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bash - superuser
Message-ID:  <200412241112.08777.algould@datawok.com>
In-Reply-To: <200412241652.59449.josh@tcbug.org>
References:  <41C6EE24.4080606@vilot.com> <200412241006.47078.algould@datawok.com> <200412241652.59449.josh@tcbug.org>

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On Friday 24 December 2004 10:52 am, Josh Paetzel wrote:
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>
> I've always been curious as to why you can't(shouldn't?) just change
> the shell that root uses.

I think it has to do with the fact that some shells executables are 
in /bin and others are in /usr/local/bin.  Root users should use a 
shell in /bin so that if something goes wrong and the /usr partition 
doesn't get mounted during bootup, root can still use its default 
shell.

Andrew Gould



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