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

On 23/09/2021 10:13, Rolf M. Dietze wrote:
> 
> 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?

It seems like "nobody" and "everybody" mistaken words. If "one" really 
does not work as root user then what is the meaning of the first 
paragraph from Baptiste's message and why change something?

Miroslav Lachman