Re: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root
- In reply to: Baptiste Daroussin : "[HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root"
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:28:37 UTC
On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 10:36:45AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hello, > > TL;DR: this is not a proposal to deorbit csh from base!!! > > For years now, csh is the default root shell for FreeBSD, csh can be confusing > as a default shell for many as all other unix like settled on a bourne shell > compatible interactive shell: zsh, bash, or variant of ksh. Think we should switch in 14+. My main argument is that shell one-liners in documentation are almost always written in Bourne syntax. I believe the fact that we're an outlier is confusing the sort of new users we hope to attract with thinks like Raspberry-pi and cloud images. As a long-time user, it even trips me up when I do some work on a FreeBSD box after spending most of my time on other systems. -- Brooks