In message <Pine.NEB.4.44.0207231916030.409-100000@calchas.unixiron.org>, Micha
el Kukat writes:


>
>And a very different point: Who really changes root's shell? Is there anyone
>out there doing so? Did you ever use /bin/ksh as root's shell in Solaris?
>Okay, every shell in /bin in NetBSD is statically linked, so it doesn't matter
>(besides the fast that i hate csh :), but i personally hate changing root's
>shell. Maybe scripts depend on it, and maybe you get problems in different
>places.
>

s131$ egrep '^(root|toor)' /etc/passwd
root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/ksh
toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:/bin/csh

It's that way on all my machines...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)