bash - superuser
David Landgren
david at landgren.net
Mon Dec 20 03:29:40 PST 2004
Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
>
> I have installed bash from ports.
>
> How is possible to use bash in root account ?
>
> Thanks a lot
Don't.
Leave /bin/sh as your shell. If you want to run bash as root, log in as
usual and then run 'exec bash' to replace your current shell with bash.
This is a basic rule of hygiene when working as root.
You'll appreciate working this way when you lose your /usr partition one
day...
David
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