The branch main has been updated by bapt: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=d410b585b6f00a26c2de7724d6576a3ea7d548b7
commit d410b585b6f00a26c2de7724d6576a3ea7d548b7 Author: Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> AuthorDate: 2021-10-19 06:46:12 +0000 Commit: Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> CommitDate: 2021-10-20 07:34:05 +0000 sh(1): make it the default shell for the root user In the recent history sh(1) has gain the missing features for it to become a usable interractive shell: - command completion - persistent history support - improvements on the default bindings in emacs mode - improvements in the vi mode (repect $EDITOR) - print a newline when exiting via ^D - default prompt and improvements on how PS1 can be configured - and more. This changes also simplifies making tiny freebsd images with only sh(1) as a shell --- UPDATING | 6 ++++++ etc/master.passwd | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 6184d2df8a8d..798f188971b8 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 14.x IS SLOW: world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20211020: + sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user. to force root to use + the csh shell, please run the following command as root: + + $ chsh -s csh + 20211004: Ncurses distribution has been split between libtinfow and libncurses with libncurses.so becoming a linker (ld) script to seamlessly link diff --git a/etc/master.passwd b/etc/master.passwd index a1be886f1e8d..b61c13fdd9fe 100644 --- a/etc/master.passwd +++ b/etc/master.passwd @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # $FreeBSD$ # -root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh +root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
