Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!astemgw!icspub!rdmei!saturn!srl!moore From: moore@srl.mew.mei.co.jp (W. Phillip Moore) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: tcsh for root -- ok or not? Message-ID: Date: 9 Apr 91 04:10:53 GMT References: <1991Apr8.033015.14768@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@saturn.srl.mew.mei.co.jp Distribution: comp.unix.shell Organization: Semiconductor Research Lab, Matsushita Electric Works Lines: 15 Jonathan> I see no problem with this (we do it here). Make sure your tcsh Jonathan> binary is in /etc/shells, though. That and make sure the binary is local, not accessed by NFS. One nearby site made the error of make /usr/local/bin/bash the root shell. Fine, except that /usr/local is a shared NFS directory. When the NFS server was down, he couldn't login as root. On our system, all shells are in /bin. W. Phillip Moore Phone: 06-908-1431 UNIX/Network System Administrator FAX: 06-906-7251 Semiconductor Research Laboratory E-mail: moore@mew.mei.co.jp Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. 1048 Kadoma, Osaka 571, Japan