12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
12:11 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 09:17:38AM -0400, Jeff Potter wrote:
I'm just going to set the default shell for root back to bash, but I wanted to ask the list if there is any general "rule of thumb" that root's shell should be bash?
Root's shell should be bourne shell compliant. Setting it to tcsh is shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to do administrative tasks and use tcsh, use sudo for the commands that need root access.
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