Re: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root

Quoting Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>:

> On 22/09/2021 22:50, grarpamp wrote:
>>> propose to make it the default shell for root starting FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE
>>
>> Make it so.
>>
>> The whole rest of rc, pkg, base scripts and subsystems use a lot of  
>> sh, not csh.
>> So this is a good compatibility, consistancy, and gotcha-removing update,
>> needed for decades.
>>
>> Even "bash" is a majority spoken shell in Linux/world, helping
>> make crossovers if BSD becomes a bit more bash-like.
>
> More bashism and linuxism in BSD world, you are waking the devil.
>
>> The bsd sh feature updates are filling useful/needed capability gaps.
>
> Moving to sh without maintain the same history search behavior  
> (start of the command and Up & Down arrows) are like cutting one leg.
>
> The (t)csh is what I really like on every FreeBSD machine. Never  
> seen good configured bash (prompt + history search) on any other OS  
> I ever visited. Not saying it is not possible but if FreeBSD will  
> switch default shell to something else I expect to do it the way  
> that it is more user friendly and powerful than on other OSes where  
> everything is leaved to "users can customize it". Current state of  
> sh behavior is really that "bad" way.
we are talking of the default sehll for the root user. One does not
really work as root user, but if son nothing stops who ever wants to
to exec zsh or exec tcsh?

Whoever wants is free to add other users with root pemissions is free
to do so.


Rolf M Dietze