BASH as root shell (static linking)

[Old Ranger]

RW wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:09:46 -0400
> Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:32:22AM +0100, RW wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:29:36 -0700 (PDT)
>>> Philip Hallstrom <freebsd at philip.pjkh.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> 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
>>>>>           
>>> I don't understand, why would you see csh if you login as toor
>>>       
>> It has no shell in the /etc/passwd entry by default.
>> Maybe it then defaults to csh (which is really tcsh) if nothing
>> else is given.   
>>     
>
> It defaults to sh
>
>   
>> Anyway, I prefer tcsh, but if the OP just has to have it bash,
>> it is easy to do.
>>     
>
> I actually value my ignorance of tcsh, it prevents me doing anything
> ambitious if I forget where I am. Explicitly selecting another shell is
> like a safety-catch. And tsch is fairly friendly without knowing much
> about it.
>
>   
>> All the OP has to do is install bash from /usr/ports/shells/bash and 
>> then edit /etc/passwd to change the last field for toor - after the
>> last colon - to point to where it installs bash (/usr/local/bin/bash
>> maybe) and then it should all be fine.
>>     
>
> Yes , that's what it's for.
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Hey look,
BASH is not a UNIX shell.
BASH occurred with Linux then carried over into FreeBSD.
While it has "some" advantages, it is still a bastard.

UNIX is written in "C"

Want the best you can get?  Use "tcsh" as a shell and let the linux 
community do whatever they want.

SHEESH

Z. Wade Hampton
A UNIX person