On 6/17/20 3:05 PM, NTS wrote: > On 17 Jun 2020 8:36 p.m., "David Rosenstrauch" <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 6/17/20 2:18 PM, Piscium via arch-general wrote: > >> Today I set dash as my default shell [1] on two PCs. We will see if I >> get into trouble. >> >> This question was asked years ago but maybe good to ask again. Could >> dash be made the default shell in Arch? >> > > > Couldn't you just set it as the default for your user using chsh? > > > Yes, that would probably more safe. Also, you could have a user "doot" or > whatever name with user ID 0 and shell /bin/dash to log in as a sys admin > with dash. > > Alternatively when you "su" interactively you could instead do "sudo dash". > > Used to do the same (new user with ID 0 I mean) under Solaris and it worked > flawlessly. It would be extremely safe because it wouldn't do anything, not even what the original poster wanted. It's completely unrelated to anything whatsoever. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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