Can root have /bin/csh as login shell
jim frost
madd at world.std.com
Tue Nov 6 10:46:40 AEST 1990
teexand at ioe.lon.ac.uk (Andrew Dawson) writes:
>On an RS/6000 under AIX v3, the system is distributed with root's shell
>as /bin/ksh. Is there any problem changing this to /bin/csh? I know that
>csh is not part of the minimal base system, but is this a problem once
>the extensions have been installed?
It causes no problem, we've had csh installed for months. In fact,
there's a bug in ksh which causes it to infinite loop if you `su' from
a user whose home directory is NFS mounted from a Sun (this bug exists
as of 3001, don't know about 3002 yet), which is what prompted our
change.
jim frost
saber software
jimf at saber.com
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