On Tuesday 24 June 2003 22:24, felix zaslavskiy wrote:
> > I did move bash to /bin so that I could have access to it in single user
> > mode. But I did not modify root to use bash by default. I remember
> > hearing of dire consequenses to those modifying the default root options.
>
> I like to know what these dire consequences are because the first thing
> i do when i install netbsd is install bash and change default shell for
> root to /usr/pkg/bin/bash

Since bash is a package it could be removed, even if by accident.  Imagine 
doing a "make update" there (possibly as part of updating something else) and 
the compile fails for some reason.  Suddenly you can't log in as root.

I too prefer the bourne style shells over the csh ones and also change the 
root shell on my systems.  However, I change it to ksh so that I am always 
using one of the base system shells.

> I never had a problem on three machines i been using.

You never have a problem until you have a problem.  :-)

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@netbsd.org>
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