From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 10 10:40:50 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 10:40:47 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B107C37B401 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 145BOu-000AGH-00; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:40:45 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eBAIedl05526; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:40:39 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:40:37 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: questions@freebsd.org To: Erik Trulsson References: <00121017490501.01067@buffy> <20001210180621.A20292@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20001210180621.A20292@student.uu.se> Subject: Re: Root and the C Shell MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00121019403703.01067@buffy> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message