Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:50:45 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: shells, users and X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809222039330.803-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980922200428.C6192@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote: >Jason C. Wells wrote: > >> As a side note, it is unadvisable to make root's shell bash in >> /etc/passwd. >Why should you need the fixit disk if your root shell is fucked? Just >type `-s' at the boot prompt and it will let you start plain old >/bin/sh. (Unless you've knackered that one as well :-) This does make sense. I do not recall why -s did not work, but I do recall that it did not. I most likely "knackered" sh some time prior to my trouble and was unable to figure which of my tinkerings broke it. As I think about it, I may even have deleted sh back in my early days because I figured one shell (/bin/bash with sh linked to it.) was good enough. Shortly after this I learned about the dynamic linking in bash. Imagine my dismay when -s did not work and I didn't have a fixit flop. :-O At least I still had a phone to call a buddy with an internet connection. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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