On Sunday 30 July 2006 23:09, Gergo Szakal wrote: > Peter Avalos wrote: > > Since the n00b meter was pegged, I'm assuming you don't know about manual > > pages: 'man chsh' could have helped you figure this out: > > > > chsh -s /bin/sh > > Yeah, I was in a hurry and forgot to RTFM before posting, sorry about that. > Thanks to all for the answers, they are way trivial, shame on me that > they did not jump into my brain. At least I have learnt from my > mistake(s), so I am really thankful.
This is actually why FreeBSD has a user named toor (I don't know if DFly still has this user as I don't have access to a DFly box at the moment). The recommendation is never to change root's shell, in part because of this very reason. Another reason is that the filesystem that has /usr/pkg/bin may be b0rked, or something may have happened to a shared library, etc. The toor user exists for people who want to set their root shell to something other than the current default but without those problems.
