From d410b585b6f00a26c2de7724d6576a3ea7d548b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baptiste Daroussin Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:46:12 +0200 Subject: 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 --- UPDATING | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'UPDATING') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3