bash - superuser

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 24 December 2004 09:53 am, Andy Firman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:51PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > Then the thing to do is create another root account and make the
> > default shell for that one be bash, leaving the root root be
> > /bin/sh.
>
> So for those of us that want to go back to the way things should be,
> (leaving root shell be /bin/sh)  I fire up vipw and change this:
>
> root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/usr/local/bin/bash
>
> to this:
>
> root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh
>
> Right?
>
> Then I keep using sudo all the time.  But if I need to do some big
> work as root, I can su to root and get bash simply by typing:
>
> /usr/local/bin/bash
>
> Right?
>
>
> Just want to be clear on this.
>
> Thanks.

I think that should do it.

If you wanted root to use bash all the time, couldn't you 
compile/install a static version into /bin/?  I've never done it; but I 
know that NetBSD has some statically linked shells in their ports 
(pkgsrc) that install to /bin/, so I would think it should be possible.

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould