Herb Peyerl wrote:

> Matthew Ross Davis <mrd@metatronpress.com>  wrote:
>  > I just installed 1.4.2 on my Tadpole 3GX and I've noticed some strange
>  > things. For instance, 1.4 included bash and root had it as a default shell,
>  > but 1.4.2 doesn't seem to. It also doesn't default to shadow passwds, and
>
> umm.. "huh?"... Unless I'm totally out to lunch, I don't think NetBSD
> has _ever_ distributed 'bash' nor was anything other than 'csh' the
> default root shell...

I could be remembering incorrectly, but I installed 1.4 on a Sparc 2.
/usr/local/bin/bash was the default shell for root.

> NetBSD also defaults to shadow passwords in /etc/master.passwd.

My mistake here, i was looking in the wrong file.

> Perhaps someone else installed your 1.4 for you? Or perhaps you're mistaking
> it for linux?

Ha ha very funny.

mrd