Re: [HEADSUP] making /bin/sh the default shell for root

[email protected] (Dirk Meyer)
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
Organization privat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Baptiste Daroussin schrieb:,

> For years now, csh is the default root shell for FreeBSD
> [...]
> This makes it a usable shell by default, which is why I would like to propose to
> make it the default shell for root starting FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE (not MFCed)
> 
> If no strong arguments has been raised until October 15th, I will make this
> proposal happen.

We have already "toor" for sh.

I disgree on the "user friendly" part of sh.
History search in sh and bash can't hold a candle angainst csh.

Migration of aliase will be painful as ">&" and "|&" is not supoported.

I vote strongly against it.

kind regards Dirk

- Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany
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