Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-11 Thread Kristian Holdich
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 06:22, Danny MacMillan wrote: If your concern is that you won't be able to log in to single-user mode, consider that you will be prompted for a shell in any case (at least I am). If your concern is that you would like to have bash available in single user mode as well,

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread arden
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 10:03, Kristian Holdich wrote: Hi, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto my home pc to use as a desktop OS and am working through getting it going just right. I have some experience with administrating earlier versions as headless servers with 4.x and Solaris, but

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 10 Jul 2004 at 10:03, Kristian Holdich wrote: Speaking of root, i'm so used to Bash i'd like to switch to it for the root user - is there any gotchas with moving bash to /bin and updating /etc/shells to allow it? From my notes: Use FreeBSD's password file manipulation utility,

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Kristian Holdich
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 14:40, Kjell Midtseter wrote: On 10 Jul 2004 at 10:03, Kristian Holdich wrote: Speaking of root, i'm so used to Bash i'd like to switch to it for the root user - is there any gotchas with moving bash to /bin and updating /etc/shells to allow it? From my notes:

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Henrik W Lund
Kristian Holdich wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 14:40, Kjell Midtseter wrote: There's one glaring problem with that, if for some reason you need to go into single user mode under FreeBSD's default slicing scheme root wont have a shell as /usr isn't mounted. It's always good practice to keep the

Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions

2004-07-10 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 08:02:22AM -0600, Kristian Holdich wrote: ... There's one glaring problem with that, if for some reason you need to go into single user mode under FreeBSD's default slicing scheme root wont have a shell as /usr isn't mounted. It's always good practice to keep the