There are some historical reasons (which may no longer be valid) why it
would be better not to change the shell for the root login, and I believe you
may
have inadvertently discovered one of them. (I'm working from memory here;
no Solaris system in front of me) Csh is (or was) not located in the same
directory as sh. Sysadmins would change /bin/sh to /bin/csh in the /etc/passwd
file, and the system wouldn't be able to find the desired login shell.
Moreover, the location of csh is (or was) on a separate partition, for those
systems not using a monolithic mount of the OS, so in cases where the file
system
had problems, the system might even come up without the desired directory
mounted, making it impossible for root to get into the system at all.
Make sure you do a "which csh" to ascertain the correct directory.
regards
gear
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