Matthew Ross Davis <mrd@metatronpress.com>  wrote:
 > > 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.

By default, "/usr/local/*" is not populated by any NetBSD distribution. Hence,
by default, pointing roots shell to /usr/local/bin/bash would result in an
unbootable release.  I can guarantee you that at no time has NetBSD ever
been distributed with a "/usr/local/bin/bash" shell for root.