On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Then the thing to do is create another root account and make the > > default shell for that one be bash, leaving the root root be > > /bin/sh. > > So for those of us that want to go back to the way things should be, > (leaving root shell be /bin/sh) I fire up vipw and change this: > > root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/usr/local/bin/bash > > to this: > > root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh > > Right? > > Then I keep using sudo all the time. But if I need to do some big > work as root, I can su to root and get bash simply by typing: > > /usr/local/bin/bash > > Right? > > > Just want to be clear on this. > > Thanks.
I think that should do it. If you wanted root to use bash all the time, couldn't you compile/install a static version into /bin/? I've never done it; but I know that NetBSD has some statically linked shells in their ports (pkgsrc) that install to /bin/, so I would think it should be possible. Best of luck, Andrew Gould _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
