[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Solaris, is it safe to change root to use bash?

Only if it's statically-linked.  You want a shell that you can use in
single-user mode, in case anything/everything goes to hell.

> How would you do it any way, since usermod won't work for logged in
> users.

vi /etc/passwd

admintool works, too, I think.  It's been years since I've used it, so I
might be wrong.

--Jonathan