On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:26:32PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > --On Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:19 PM -0700 David Wolfskill > <david_at_catwhisker.org> wrote: > > >Well, per > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/master.passwd?rev=1.1&conte > >nt-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup it looks as if /bin/csh was root's shell as > >of Revision 1.1, Sun Jun 20 13:41:37 1993 UTC (11 years, 3 months ago) by > >rgrimes. > > > >No, I didn't check to see if it had changed back & forth in the interim. > > Wow. I must have been carrying my passwd files along with my upgrades > since forever. I don't have a single system that has csh as root's shell. I imagine it was made the default because of its supposed friendly interactivity features. I personally find it quite the contrary (no offense to Bill Joy of course), as do plenty of others. Google on 'csh considered harmful' for a compelling argument. The nice part about having csh as the default root shell is that it actually discourages use of the root login. That nasty csh is a constant reminder for me that I'm logged in as root and probably shouldn't be. ;) GeoffReceived on Tue Oct 05 2004 - 23:01:14 UTC
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