I completely agree. It will save me the ‘/bin/sh’ at the beginning of each ‘su -‘ session. Also, it will simplify building extra small FreeBSD images, allowing an easier removal of ‘csh’.
I use csh from time to time, but I do wish it would take a much more explicit action so my brain has switched over to ‘csh mode’. I won’t lie that I’ve pasted script into my terminal and spent time troubleshooting why the commands didn’t work only to realize I forgot to change to /bin/sh first. Chris Stephan Sent from FreeBSD ________________________________ From: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org> on behalf of Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 3:36:45 AM To: curr...@freebsd.org <curr...@freebsd.org>; a...@freebsd.org <a...@freebsd.org> Subject: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root Hello, TL;DR: this is not a proposal to deorbit csh from base!!! For years now, csh is the default root shell for FreeBSD, csh can be confusing as a default shell for many as all other unix like settled on a bourne shell compatible interactive shell: zsh, bash, or variant of ksh. Recently our sh(1) has receive update to make it more user friendly in interactive mode: * command completion (thanks pstef@) * improvement in the emacs mode, to make it behave by default like other shells * improvement in the vi mode (in particular the vi edit to respect $EDITOR) * support for history as described by POSIX. This makes it a usable shell by default, which is why I would like to propose to make it the default shell for root starting FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE (not MFCed) If no strong arguments has been raised until October 15th, I will make this proposal happen. Again just in case: THIS IS NOT A PROPOSAL TO REMOVE CSH FROM BASE! Best regards, Baptiste
