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2021-09-23 |
FreeBSD to change root's shell |
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The FreeBSD team is planning to change their operating system's default shell. Until recently the default shell for the root account was csh, but it is being changed to /bin/sh. For years now, csh is the default root shell for FreeBSD, csh can be confusing as a default shell for many as all other unix like settled on a bourne shell compatible interactive shell: zsh, bash, or variant of ksh. Recently our sh(1) has receive update to make it more user friendly in interactive mode: command completion (thanks pstef_at_); improvement in the emacs mode, to make it behave by default like other shells; improvement in the vi mode (in particular the vi edit to respect $EDITOR); support for history as described by POSIX." The proposal points out csh will remain part of the FreeBSD base system, just no longer be the default shell. This change is something some hosting providers already adjust in their images so this proposal will result in less work for those service providers. |
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