Subject: Re: Changing root's shell to /bin/sh
To: Dean Huxley <dean@huxley.org>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/15/1999 23:50:51
Dean Huxley wrote:
> 
> I agree that setting roots shell to a dynamically linked one is a bad
> idea, yet I know some people are still going to do it because it is
> too much of a hassle for them to type ``exec /path/to/tcsh''.  Chances
> are that these same people won't have set a password for toor, so it
> probably wouldn't help them.

what's wrong with using 'su -m'?  then you get whatever shell you started
out with, which is presumably the shell you prefer...

later.

colin