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:
> >> Minor update for shells (quoted lines are the old text):
> >> -- snip --
> >>> Q: Why isn't bash the default shell?
> >>>
> >>> A: Ksh93 is a better shell. 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.
> >> Erm, neither "bash" or "ksh93" are the "default shell". IMO the term
> >> "default shell" itself is a problem because there is no "default shell",
> >> the nearest terms may be "default system shell" (=/bin/sh) and "default
> >> user shell" (e.g. the shell used by default when a new user is created
> >> (which is unfortunately /bin/sh)). Most of the ravings&&rants are AFAIK
> >> about /bin/sh which is the "Bourne shell" (not "bash" (="Bourne Again
> >> Shell")) and not a POSIX shell (like "bash" in POSIX mode) as many
> >> applications and users seem to expect. Problem is now how to phrase it
> >> (I'm notoriously bad at that stuff...) ...
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> > Q: Why isn't bash the default shell?
> > A1: Solaris uses the Bourne shell as default system shell, /bin/sh, to
>
> A1: Solaris uses the Bourne shell as default system (root user) shell,
> /bin/sh, to
>
> > 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?
William
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