bash - superuser

[Ruben de Groot]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:22:12AM -0700, Tom Vilot typed:
> 
> Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but 
> bash.

That's fine untill you're going to troubleshoot/administer a system with
no bash installed.

> >No problem for people to be productive with bash or whatever shell they
> >prefer. Just not for root. You should not even use the root account unless
> >absolutely necessary.
> >
> 
> Ya mean like ...
> 
>  ... editing /etc/rc.conf
>  ... installing a port or package
>  ... updating the ports tree and/or running portupgrade
>  ... configuring the firewall
>  ... backing up the file system
>  ... checking /var/log files for attempts at cracking
>  ... reading root's email
>  ... rsyncing to a remote server
> 
> I would be curious how I could do any of the above as someone other than 
> root.

While most of these tasks do indeed require root-privileges, none of them 
requires more then a single command line. This command line would be exactly
the same wether you're using bash or [[t]c]sh so there's no reason for
changing root's default shell here.