[buug] Lost root access

[f.johan.beisser]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Rick Moen wrote:

> Yeah, what he said.
>
> Bash sure as _hell_ isn't csh-compatible, making it doubly undesirable
> to chsh the root user to it.

true. the FreeBSD team eventually went over to tcsh for the root shell,
though. something i don't understand to this day.

> Though why would someone would willingly use csh in the 21st century,
> unless he's part of some Berkeley software cult....  <ducking and running>

beats me, i use bash.

as far as being in the berkeley software cult:
http://caustic.org/~jan/history.html

i like things with history behind them.

i also abuse my root level stuff through bash. i don't think i've logged
in as root directly on any of my machines in many many months. in a couple
cases, i've completely forgotten the root password.

> > most of freebsd's scripts are written in bourne shell.
>
> Well, csh programming being considered harmful, and all that.  (I think
> I'll run, now.  ;->  )

it is. i find it brutally frustrating, and stick with bourne shell or perl
with bourne style syntax.

luckily, you don't have to run to fast to get away from me. i'm pretty
slow due to my knees.

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