Root shell

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Lannstrom <op at trekdanne.se> wrote:
> Why is this not a good idea? The only reason I can think of it that you
> want your root shell on the root hard drive. As many system use a
> separate partition for /usr and that bash installs to /usr/local/bin per
> default I can see how that can cause troubles. But are there any other
> reasons? Unstability in bash? Unexpected behaivor causing more harm in a
> root shell?
>

This explains one of the reasons not to change root's shell:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT


-- 
Glen Barber