[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:19:57AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Solaris, is it safe to change root to use bash?  How would you do it any
> way, since usermod won't work for logged in users.

NO.

$ su - root
<password>
# bash

THATS HOW YOU DO IT.  Otherwise, for normal users, edit the password file.
Or just run "bash".

Bill

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