Hi! On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: >[...]
>> Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell >There is absolutely no reason to change root's shell. >There is even no reason at all to work as root. >Use sudo, or even su -m, or execute bash after you became root. >Even if you use the bash-static package, bash gets installed into >/usr/local/bin (IIRC) and you may not have /usr while being in single >user mode. The latter should not really be a problem. init prompts for the shell to execute anyway if you boot into single user, so you can say /bin/ksh then even if root's shell were changed. However that point of mine isn't meant to imply that it were a good idea or "necessary" to change root's shell. sudo works just fine. >[...] Kind regards, Hannah.
