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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers clueless - shell question Post 40811 by RTM on Tuesday 23rd of September 2003 04:45:13 PM
Old 09-23-2003
Can you post the root entry from /etc/passwd?

I don't understand why you wrote that the default shell is -sh.
Default shell for root should be /bin/sh.

(Never mind...see the next post by Perderabo - he nailed it!

And it's been quite some time since using sh for root for me - our organization changed to ksh about 3 years ago - you were correct, /sbin/sh. I've been changing my workstation root account to test this problem - hard to remember all of this and try to get work done too!)

Last edited by RTM; 09-23-2003 at 06:01 PM..
 

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