Subject: Re: changing root shell hell
To: None <Netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Rasputin <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/30/2003 14:27:35
Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:19:03PM +0000, Rasputin wrote:
> 
>>* Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com> [1210 20:10]:
>>
>>>Jeremy had the answer, but the overall rule is:
>>>don't change root's shell.
>>>
>>>1) I tend to run "sudo zsh"  on machines I want root on.
>>>2) the big danger is that your new shell is 
>>>   a) not on the root partition
>>>   b) can't get to any shared libraries it needs.
>>
>>I find that sh makes fat fingering commands more likely,
>>so I install pkgsrc/shells/static-bash and copy it to /bin.
> 
> 
> "set -o emacs && bind "^I"=complete-list" makes ksh quite competitive.

Yeah there are a few to choose from:

0rasputin@dozer:rasputin$ ls -d /usr/pkgsrc/shells/static-*
/usr/pkgsrc/shells/static-ast-ksh       /usr/pkgsrc/shells/static-tcsh
/usr/pkgsrc/shells/static-bash2
0rasputin@dozer:rasputin$



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