In message <19990317185204.43266@fundy.ca>, David Maxwell writes:
>Okay, I'll bite. What does POSIX or X/Open specify about root's
>default shell?

I was assuming that the point was that POSIX speficies, fairly carefully
and at length, the behavior of /bin/sh (or at least, specifies a shell with
the behavior that we've got in /bin/sh), so that might make a good default
for anything, since it's something people are more likely to be familiar
with.

-s