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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Can root have /bin/csh as login shell
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.234640.23740@world.std.com>
Date: 5 Nov 90 23:46:40 GMT
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Organization: Saber Software
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teexand@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Andrew Dawson) writes:
>On an RS/6000 under AIX v3, the system is distributed with root's shell
>as /bin/ksh. Is there any problem changing this to /bin/csh? I know that
>csh is not part of the minimal base system, but is this a problem once
>the extensions have been installed?

It causes no problem, we've had csh installed for months.  In fact,
there's a bug in ksh which causes it to infinite loop if you `su' from
a user whose home directory is NFS mounted from a Sun (this bug exists
as of 3001, don't know about 3002 yet), which is what prompted our
change.

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com