Re: What shell do people use?
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:05:04 +0100
+ richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Tobin):
| In article <slrndt1kkj.2v6b.philip+usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
| Philip Paeps <philip+usenet@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
|>Use chsh(1) or pw(8). Don't do it for root - you want root to be as close to
|>the default as possible. Bonus if it's extra uncomfortable.
|
| I disagree. With a few exceptions, root's environment should be as
| close to your own as possible, so that you don't make mistakes due to
| unfamiliarity. And making use of root uncomfortable is likely to lead
| to frustration, which is exactly what you don't want when you're root.
Hmm. Isn't that what toor is for?
(My login shell is es, which makes me very unusual I suspect.)
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