Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:38:48 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why we don't mess with root's shell: Re: Need help withRoot shell? Message-ID: <199905271738.KAA14975@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 May 1999 12:58:53 EDT."
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Pete Vanderburgh <peterv@verio.net> wrote:
> Just for the record, I am currently running FreeBSD 3.1 Stable on a
> Pentium 133, using IceWm for X-Windows, and yes, my root shell is bash.
Perhaps the biggest issue with changing the root shell is that
whatever you use, it must be on the root ("/") partition. If you follow
the recommended guidelines (recommended by the install routines, that
is), "/usr" is a separate partition. That means that
"/usr/local/bin/bash" (for example) is on a partition different that
"/". This will cause problems if you try to login as root and the /usr
partition is not mounted; since /usr is not mounted, /usr/local/bin/bash
doesn't exist, and you won't be able to login. However, if you arrange
your partitions such that /usr is on the same partition as /, you won't
have any problems logging in, but this may raise system maintentance
issues (not too important for single-user systems, but important for
multi-user ones).
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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