Newbieish Desktop Questions
Henrik W Lund
henrik.w.lund at broadpark.no
Sat Jul 10 16:08:09 PDT 2004
Kristian Holdich wrote:
>On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 14:40, Kjell Midtseter wrote:
>
>
>There's one glaring problem with that, if for some reason you need to go
>into single user mode under FreeBSD's default slicing scheme root wont
>have a shell as /usr isn't mounted. It's always good practice to keep
>the shell root uses in /sbin or /bin.
>
>You can change the shell root, or any other user uses by using chpass
>also, and so long as the shell is in /etc/shells it will be valid.
>
>I was actually more interested in understanding whether any critical
>scripts would start barfing if the shell got changed, I know on Solaris
>I got into the habit of keeping root using /sbin/sh.
>
>
As far as I know, you're prompted for a root shell whenever you enter
single user mode anyways (I am, at least, and I use /bin/csh for root
normally. I'm still prompted every time). So, whatever shell you use for
root in multiuser mode shouldn't matter, as single user mode is a
different kettle of fish altogether. Granted, getting into the habit of
using one shell for root in multiuser, then having to switch into an
unfamiliar shell for single user could complicate work slightly...
As for vital scripts failing, I doubt it. Unless you start symlinking
like crazy, things should work fine, as scripts starting with #!/bin/sh
will always use /bin/sh and so on (so unless /bin/sh is a symlink to
/usr/bin/wish or some such exotic setup, nothing will barf. :-)
-Henrik W Lund
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