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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: Why does vipw *require* /bin/csh ?
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Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 16:52:29 EDT
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No, what it does is it prevents you from setting the ROOT default
log in shell to something other than /bin/sh or /bin/csh.  You should
avoid doing that anyway.  It's usually best to use a working shell
for root (like a System V Bourne shell) rather than any of the buggy
shells that come with Berkeley UNIX.

If you want alternate "su" shells, you can do the entries of the form
    croot:XCJlkJER38:0:0:Charlie &:/:/bin/csh
and alias "su" to "su croot" in your own shell.  Or bypass it entirely
and alias su to
	su -c exec "/bin/funny-sh"

-Ron