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Re: tcsh for root
On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Yaron wrote:
> Er, what's wrong with changingf root to tcsh instead of bash? I've been
> using root with tcsh for like 6 months to no ill-effect whatsoever.
In general, there's nothing wrong with using tcsh for root. However,
and this is especially true of systems with which you are NOT well
acquainted - do NOT change root shell to anything but /bin/sh until
you have checked what filesystems come up on single-user boot.
Linux is proof against THIS problem - tcsh is in /bin too. However, many
other systems (SunOS and some others) have tcsh in /usr/local - which may
NOT be mounted in single user. If tcsh is NOT available in single user,
root cannot login. If all you can reach is single user and cannot login
as root... problem :-).
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Marc A. Volovic (marc@leonardo.ls.huji.ac.il)
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