Dimitre,

Your right when I did edit the /etc/passwd file I couldn't log at all in my
machine so I returned the settings which I replace then after doing so it
works fine again. Checking on the correct directory would be a greater help.
Its just really different from Solaris 9.

Thank You All.

Angelyn

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Dimitre
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:19 PM
To: Solaris-Users mailing list
Subject: Re: [Solaris-Users] Shell Prompt on Solaris 10


> 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.

In addition:

http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq-2.html#15


Regards,
Dimitre


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