Renaming root account

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Mar 4 03:47:59 PST 2005


On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> In my opinion, absolutely none at all.  People should never change the
> default shell of root from /bin/csh and "toor" is just a hack to please
> those who are too bored to type: % exec bash

I'm not sure what's worse: using anything other than /bin/sh for root's 
shell, or using /bin/csh for *anything*.

Yes, I know it's not the fundamentally broken original CSH, but I still 
get the willies whenever I see it.

-- Dave


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