On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Then the thing to do is create another root account and make the
default shell for that one be bash, leaving the root root be /bin/sh.
So for those of us that want to go back to the way things should be,
(leaving root shell be
On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Then the thing to do is create another root account and make the
default shell for that one be bash, leaving the root root be
/bin/sh.
So for those of us that want to
On Friday 24 December 2004 16:06, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Then the thing to do is create another root account and make
the default shell for that one be bash, leaving
On Dec 24, Josh Paetzel launched this into the bitstream:
On Friday 24 December 2004 16:06, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Then the thing to do is create another root account and make
On Friday 24 December 2004 10:52 am, Josh Paetzel wrote:
-snip-
I've always been curious as to why you can't(shouldn't?) just change
the shell that root uses.
I think it has to do with the fact that some shells executables are
in /bin and others are in /usr/local/bin. Root users should use a
On 2004-12-24 15:38, Colin J. Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 24, Josh Paetzel launched this into the bitstream:
I've always been curious as to why you can't(shouldn't?) just change
the shell that root uses.
Josh that's been the backbone of this particular thread over the last
few
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
This is a particularly tenacious rumour. I've been using bash as my
root shell on many different UNIX platforms for nearly 14 years, and
I've never had any problems. I've also never seen any substantiated
problems reported anywhere.
Besides, when your favourite shell
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 6:53 AM -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
So for those of us that want to go back to the way things should be,
(leaving root shell be /bin/sh) I fire up vipw and change this:
root:*:0:0:Charlie :/root:/usr/local/bin/bash
to this:
root:*:0:0:Charlie
Tom Vilot wrote:
Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but
bash.
Then log in as your normal user and then do a 'su -m'
-Tabor
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(sorry if I cocked up your threading, readers - I accidentally deleted
Gregs mail and so pasted this from google groups).
There are a couple of reasons why this shouldn't
happen:
1. You don't normally start networking until you have mounted your
local file systems.
2. The problem
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:22:12AM -0700, Tom Vilot typed:
Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but
bash.
That's fine untill you're going to troubleshoot/administer a system with
no bash installed.
No problem for people to be productive with bash or whatever
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:57:36PM +0100, Erik Norgaard typed:
...
But I do like that bash shows me the options when autocomplete does not
have a unique completion.
set autolist
will do the equivalent in [t]csh
Ruben
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:14:15AM +, Dick Davies wrote:
(sorry if I cocked up your threading, readers - I accidentally deleted
Gregs mail and so pasted this from google groups).
There are a couple of reasons why this shouldn't
happen:
1. You don't normally start networking
* Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1234 11:34]:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:14:15AM +, Dick Davies wrote:
I thought the issue was the ldconfig path not being set up at the point
that pppd called su?
pppd lives in /usr, after all :)
Not quite. The issue was that the
Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
Hi,
I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
I have installed bash from ports.
How is possible to use bash in root account ?
Thanks a lot
Don't.
Leave /bin/sh as your shell. If you want to run bash as root, log in as
usual and then run 'exec bash' to
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
I have installed bash from ports.
How is possible to use bash in root account ?
Do not change the shell of the root account. If you have /usr or
/usr/local on a
* Gerhard Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1207 12:07]:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
I have installed bash from ports.
How is possible to use bash in root account ?
Do not change the shell of the
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:32:53PM +, Dick Davies typed:
* Gerhard Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1207 12:07]:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
I have installed bash from ports.
How is
Using a shell not contained in the root filesystem can cause problems
even when not in single user mode. There are enough examples in the archives.
Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but
bash.
I really don't get what the problem is with this 'sh is on the
Tom Vilot wrote:
Using a shell not contained in the root filesystem can cause problems
even when not in single user mode. There are enough examples in the
archives.
Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but
bash.
Is it a big problem just to start bash once you've
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:07:16PM +0100, Gerhard Meier said:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
I have installed bash from ports.
How is possible to use bash in root account ?
Do not change the
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:29:37 +0100, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
Hi,
I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
I have installed bash from ports.
How is possible to use bash in root account ?
Thanks a lot
Don't.
Leave
Dick Davies wrote:
* Gerhard Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1207 12:07]:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
I have installed bash from ports.
How is possible to use bash in root account ?
Do not change the shell of
Joshua Lokken wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:29:37 +0100, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Leave /bin/sh as your shell.
'Leave' /bin/sh as your shell makes it sound like /bin/sh is the
default root shell. Did this change in FreeBSD 5.x? It appears
that in 4.x, the root shell is
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Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: bash - superuser
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:29:37 +0100, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Giuliano Cardozo
* Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1250 14:50]:
Using a shell not contained in the root filesystem can cause problems
even when not in single user mode. There are enough examples in the archives.
Indulge me with an example?
--
'When the door hits you in the ass on the way out, clean off
Using a shell not contained in the root filesystem can cause problems
even when not in single user mode. There are enough examples in the archives.
Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but
bash.
I really don't get what the problem is with this 'sh is on
* David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1241 17:41]:
Dick Davies wrote:
To the original poster: just be root and run 'chsh'.
No.
When you are logged in as root, you *should* have to go through extra
hoops to get comfortable.
On my box I have a # prompt to tell me I'm root. I don't sit on a
On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 15:52:27 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:32:53PM +, Dick Davies typed:
* Gerhard Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1207 12:07]:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 -
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:30:20AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 15:52:27 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:32:53PM +, Dick Davies typed:
* Gerhard Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1207 12:07]:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200,
* Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1224 00:24]:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:30:20AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 15:52:27 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:32:53PM +, Dick Davies typed:
* Gerhard Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1207
On Tuesday, 21 December 2004 at 0:45:45 +, Dick Davies wrote:
* Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1224 00:24]:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:30:20AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 15:52:27 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:32:53PM +,
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