BASH as root shell (static linking)

Philip Hallstrom freebsd at philip.pjkh.com
Fri Oct 5 14:12:52 PDT 2007


> On 06/10/2007, at 5:45 AM, RW wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:54:26 +1000
>> Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically
>>> linked
>> 
>> I would suggest using bash as your toor shell instead. toor exist
>> precisely for this purpose.
>
> Yeah, I'v done that in the past, but I really dislike csh, I don't want to 
> use
> it EVER =p

Use sudo... and alias 'su' to 'sudo -H bash'.

That's what I do... but can always fall back to the default if necessary.


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