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?
Correct.
Correct. However, there's one more thing you need to know. When you use su, if you type "% su", you become root, but you are using *your* path. If you want to use root's path, type "%su -". That makes you root *with* root's path, and makes things much easier for you.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?
Then just type "% bash" at the prompt, and you are using bash as your shell. The only "gotcha" (if you want to call it that) is that you have to type "% exit" twice to stop being root - once to get out of bash, and the second time to exit your su - session.
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