On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bob Johnson wrote:
>
> Is there a command similar to vipw that uses a simpler editor, like pico?
>From man vipw:
ENVIRONMENT
If the following environment variable exists it will be utilized by vipw:
EDITOR The editor specified by the string EDITOR will be
invoked instead of the default editor vi(1).
>
> > set up an admin account with your choice of shell.
>
> I always log in 100% of the time to my box as root and my shell is tcsh
Don't do it. Log as a normal user and su when you need to work as root.
>
> Does it matter that (I think) I changed the shell for root?
Nope, because in FreeBSD csh is tcsh:
bash-2.05b$ ls -li /bin/*csh
22596 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 640880 Sep 1 20:14 /bin/csh
22596 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 640880 Sep 1 20:14 /bin/tcsh
They have the same inode
Fer
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