FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 2:09 PM -0800 1/4/09, David Christensen wrote:
>
>I have changed the root shell to Bash on another machine I use as a CVS
>server and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I've been wondering if
>I'm setting myself up for problems by doing so.
>
>
>Does anybody know if it's okay to change the root shell on FreeBSD
>7.0-RELEASE-i386?

What I do is add the following lines to /root/.login :

if ($?prompt) then
    if ( -x /usr/local/bin/bash ) then
       # echo "Switching to bash"
       setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash
       exec /usr/local/bin/bash -login
    endif
endif

I've been doing this for at least 10 years.  I haven't had any
problems with it, but Your Mileage Might Vary.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu