William Anderson wrote: > Alan Lord (News) wrote: >> On 07/07/09 01:24, Sean Miller wrote: >>> Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash. >> I would be surprised if the default shell is bash. >> >> /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash as Dave explained. >> >> If you look at a user's default shell in /etc/passwd you will see most >> (if not all) point to bin/sh. (Although interestingly I note that root >> points to bin/bash). > > nope, /bin/sh may have been changed to point to dash instead of bash, > but new users are created with their shell set to bash. Every new > account I've set up on every ubuntu box i've set up lately gets bash as > their shell.
I forgot to mention, there's also a difference between role accounts being set to sh and user accounts being set to bash. -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/