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[ILUG] Dumb Solaris question

[ILUG] Dumb Solaris question

Liam Bedford lbedford at wbtsystems.com
Wed Nov 17 12:03:53 GMT 1999


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Twomey_Mark at emc.com [mailto:Twomey_Mark at emc.com]
> Hi,
>     Dumb question...I'd like to change the login shell for 
> root on a Solaris
> box from sh to tcsh...how would I do this??
Don't... is there a reason to? It could break stuff (lots of sun
scripts rely on /bin/sh and possibly root's shell being Bourne shell...

Better to just exec tcsh when you su to root, or write sut which
su's and runs tcsh..

L.




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