William Pursell wrote: > On 8/31/07, Richard Elling <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote: > > minor corrections below... > > Robert Neville wrote: > > > On 8/31/07, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote: [snip] > > > satisfy backward compatibility to historic releases of Solaris but > > > will switch to ksh93 as soon as possible during project Indiana. > > > A2: The default user shell may be selected using useradd or usermod, > > > recommended is ksh93. It is more standards compliant, has all of the > > > features you love about bash, and more. It also happens to be the best > > > scripting shell available. > > > > useradd defaults to no shell entry which in turn causes login to use the > > default system shell. The Users and Groups applet defaults to /bin/bash. > > Why does the applet default to /bin/bash on Solaris?
ksh93 was only putback recently (e.g. B72) and the matching Gnome applet was originally written for Linux... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
