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From: dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: my ROOT is DEAD ! What am I going to do ?!
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Date: 20 Sep 90 07:42:06 GMT
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rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes:

>It's been my experience that login and su insist on the shell for root be
>/bin/sh

I changed my /etc/passwd so root runs /bin/ksh with no surprising side effects.
Login and su both work as advertised.  Of course, I still wish su didn't
insist on mucking with the path.

						David