From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jun 30 09:43:24 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3CB43643D9 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:43:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c20002437e56.409a0431ccc0efac099f171ed4519997@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49wztz5SFcz49gy for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:43:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c20002437e56.409a0431ccc0efac099f171ed4519997@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1593510204; x=1596102204; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=yC54lMKVfMb20ioSnFzexMEXl6zeF3hAJtEzxL3Z1HU=; b=kNxFVMhvPtILI4BsnnRVbqMe+B5/9e4EK2xoe2AVlBg9ghEHQxYLEYLVjWe0zm0DyMXiBrSm9pB2PpsbS8dN2YyHoO964ilmNY87wXYLXRDrmiMx+1CHPJR9I+HK1ImXPMy61EW4H4qoIEfQN9SeYm2d7/lcL0M3askxG/MrRak= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC45Mi4xZDRjMjAwMDI0MzdlNTYuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r1.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r1.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.190.1]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Tue, 30 Jun 2020 05:43:21 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r1.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Tue, 30 Jun 2020 05:43:19 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1jqCnN-00062i-Mj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:43:17 +0100 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:43:17 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell Message-Id: <20200630104317.812dce86b2dc5ea5a42a1ee1@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49wztz5SFcz49gy X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=kNxFVMhv; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4c20002437e56.409a0431ccc0efac099f171ed4519997@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4c20002437e56.409a0431ccc0efac099f171ed4519997@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.40 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_VERYGOOD(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.01)[-1.011]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.99)[-0.988]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.70)[-0.701]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c20002437e56.409a0431ccc0efac099f171ed4519997@email-od.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org, 4250.82.1d4c20002437e56.409a0431ccc0efac099f171ed4519997@email-od.com] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:43:24 -0000 On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:44:34 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: > It is often unnoticed that FreeBSD has a mirror of the root user > appropriately named toor (whose shell can be anything). Traditionally root ran /bin/csh and toor ran /bin/sh to keep both BSD and AT&T trained sysadmins happy, it really doesn't matter what login shell root uses at work we use zsh, at home I use bash but you could even use mc or vshnu. However the OP was concerned about the prompt (which many people have correctly said involves setting PS1) rather than the shell. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith