Change root's shell?

William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Sat Aug 9 05:27:20 CEST 2008


passwd file - the symlink "might" work better.  On most real systems, sh
is actually bash running in a compatility mode - not sure if thats the
case here.  Cant check as I am in the middle of going back to 2007.2 as
2008.8 is basicly non-functional/unusable.

BillK

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 19:28 -0700, Dirk Bergstrom wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > I tried this on 2007.2 - worked fine until I rebooted and whole lot of
> > things to do with X stopped working.  e.g., you could not enter text
> > into the terminal app.
> 
> What did you try, editing /etc/passwd, or making /bin/sh a symlink to 
> /bin/bash (or just replacing it)?
> 
> I was considering editing /etc/passwd, guess I should have been clearer...
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 18:28 -0700, Dirk Bergstrom wrote:
> >> Is there any reason it would be a bad idea to change root's shell from 
> >> /bin/sh to /bin/bash?  I miss all the conveniences, and I keep 
> >> forgetting to type 'bash' when I log in.
> 
> 
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