[SunHELP] Changing Root's Shell

Adam Douglass sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Apr 18 06:20:25 CDT 2001


Trust me, you do not want to do this. One of my fellow "sysads" did this and
yesterday much to his dismay he found that he could no longer log into his
machines. Setting up another account with a UID of 0 is a much better idea.

Adam Douglass
System Administrator
Veridian Information Solutions

>>Hi All
>>By changing the root's shell what are the things which get affected in
general?Can someone tell
>>what are the procedures to follow/to take care while changing the shell
for the root user which
>>does'nt hamper the normal performance of the OS(Solaris 7).
>>Thanks in Advance
>>Srinivas

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