Subject: Re: changing root shell hell
To: Rasputin <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
From: Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+netbsd-help@bjan.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/29/2003 10:17:08
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:19:03PM +0000, Rasputin wrote:
> * Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com> [1210 20:10]:
> > Jeremy had the answer, but the overall rule is:
> > don't change root's shell.
> >
> > 1) I tend to run "sudo zsh" on machines I want root on.
> > 2) the big danger is that your new shell is
> > a) not on the root partition
> > b) can't get to any shared libraries it needs.
>
> I find that sh makes fat fingering commands more likely,
> so I install pkgsrc/shells/static-bash and copy it to /bin.
"set -o emacs && bind "^I"=complete-list" makes ksh quite competitive.
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