> Andrew Todorov, writes:
>> 
>> when I change the shell for root to bash the chsh program send this message:
>> 
>> "warning,unknown root shell"
> 
> I would personally not use bash for a root shell. This is because it
> usually sits in the /usr partition. I want root to be able to run a shell
> even if the /usr partition gets corrupted - so I stick with /bin/csh.
> (Actually, the first thing I do as root is usually type exec
> /usr/pkg/bin/bash, but that's another story...)
> 
> My advice is: DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS. Stick with /bin/csh.

Another good reason (IMHO) for not doing this, is that a decent shell
(my favourite being tcsh, for what it's worth,) could well rely on some
dynamic libraries[1].

So if your libraries go to pot for any reason (for example, you are
upgrading from a.out to ELF,) you then end up without a working root
shell.  Not good :-(.

Most of the essential things for recovering/building a system (like sh &
tar) are statically linked for this reason...

Cheers,
Tim.


[1] I don't know about bash in particular (tcsh certainly does,) but
    it's worth bearing in mind.

-- 
Tim Walls