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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:55:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality <cjc26@cornell.edu>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
Cc:        "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: roots shell
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908181253590.475-100000@tankgrrl>
In-Reply-To: <19990818103820.A29062@wopr.caltech.edu>

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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Matthew Hunt wrote:

| If something horrible happens and /usr can't be mounted, you're not
| likely to make it to multi-user mode.  When you boot in single-user
| mode, you are offered your choice of shell, defaulting to /bin/sh, so
| this is a non-issue on FreeBSD.

Oops, you're right..I was thinking of Slowaris.


| > There should be a user called `toor' which uses bash as its shell; log
| > in as that instead.
| 
| As shipped, "toor" has a shell of /bin/sh, as FreeBSD doesn't have bash
| in the base system.

Sh, bash, what is difference? ;)


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