On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:19:59PM +0200, Jrn Clausen wrote: > If you actually bricked your root account: boot single user and chsh to > /bin/sh or /bin/csh. > > I always keep /bin/sh as my root shell and do > > if [ -x /usr/pkg/bin/tcsh ]; then > exec /usr/pkg/bin/tcsh > fi > > in /root/.profile. I know why, and now you do too... >
Which works fine right up until you either decide to put /usr/pkg/bin on a remote filesystem that becomes unavailable or some system problem such as a missing shared library stops tcsh from running then you understand why this also is not a good idea. It would be safer to either create a shell alias so you can save keystrokes when you log in or use another account with uid 0 as the favoured login. I set the toor account shell to bash and use that and leave root's shell as default. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
