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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Changing the default shell for ... Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:07:45 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 16 Message-ID: <331CC761.4893@OntheNet.com.au> References: <01bbede1$59bcf1c0$664c1bcc@tony.gcr1.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Tony <tony@gcr1.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36534 Tony wrote: > > What do I modify to have the system boot up and load the BASH shell by > default > as root ...?? > If you want to change the default shell for 'root', simply edit the "/etc/passwd" file (use vipw PLEASE!) and change the shell name (it's the last entry on the line). However, I would strongly advise putting a copy of bash in /bin rather than the default location of /usr/local/bin as the /usr filesystem is not mounted when you do a minimal (-s) startup so your favorite shell will not be available until you have got this filesystem mounted! Tony