Subject: root login shell
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@lonnie.egr.unlv.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 03/17/1999 15:04:01
>In message <19990317182056.20762@fundy.ca>, David Maxwell writes:
>>btw, why are we arguing about root's shell when the default install says
>>"Don't login as root, use su!"
>
>Because 'su' will use root's shell also.
>
>-s

Many years ago there used to be 2 root accounts on BSD systems (4.2, 4.3).
root had /bin/csh as its login shell and `toor' had /bin/sh as its login
shell...


						--greg