On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:22:12AM -0700, Tom Vilot typed: > > Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but > bash.
That's fine untill you're going to troubleshoot/administer a system with no bash installed. > >No problem for people to be productive with bash or whatever shell they > >prefer. Just not for root. You should not even use the root account unless > >absolutely necessary. > > > > Ya mean like ... > > ... editing /etc/rc.conf > ... installing a port or package > ... updating the ports tree and/or running portupgrade > ... configuring the firewall > ... backing up the file system > ... checking /var/log files for attempts at cracking > ... reading root's email > ... rsyncing to a remote server > > I would be curious how I could do any of the above as someone other than > root. While most of these tasks do indeed require root-privileges, none of them requires more then a single command line. This command line would be exactly the same wether you're using bash or [[t]c]sh so there's no reason for changing root's default shell here. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
