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authorBaptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>2021-10-19 06:46:12 +0000
committerBaptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>2021-10-20 07:34:05 +0000
commitd410b585b6f00a26c2de7724d6576a3ea7d548b7 (patch)
treecaa69cf6c229e93127ed7df91709158475d255c2
parentef0d94a3d34c880bd9f86cd842ee01b6075bc1d8 (diff)
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sh(1): make it the default shell for the root user
In the recent history sh(1) has gain the missing features for it to become a usable interractive shell: - command completion - persistent history support - improvements on the default bindings in emacs mode - improvements in the vi mode (repect $EDITOR) - print a newline when exiting via ^D - default prompt and improvements on how PS1 can be configured - and more. This changes also simplifies making tiny freebsd images with only sh(1) as a shell
-rw-r--r--UPDATING6
-rw-r--r--etc/master.passwd2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 6184d2df8a8d..798f188971b8 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 14.x IS SLOW:
world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
+20211020:
+ sh(1) is now the default shell for the root user. to force root to use
+ the csh shell, please run the following command as root:
+
+ $ chsh -s csh
+
20211004:
Ncurses distribution has been split between libtinfow and libncurses
with libncurses.so becoming a linker (ld) script to seamlessly link
diff --git a/etc/master.passwd b/etc/master.passwd
index a1be886f1e8d..b61c13fdd9fe 100644
--- a/etc/master.passwd
+++ b/etc/master.passwd
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# $FreeBSD$
#
-root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
+root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh
toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin