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i recently downloaded and installed bash on my netbsd box (1.5.2) and set my shell and my root shell using user mod to change the shell, command executed under root. bash is installed from my user home directory (home/joe) and i moved the bash executable to /bin/ and everything is fine, except i get complains from netbsd that bash isnt a valid shell, worse, i can login as root, but can not su to root from any other user, i know i did something wrong how do i fix?

Is bash in /etc/shells?

haha nope its not, it will be as soon as i get up to walk downstairs! i knew it was something simple, thanks

i put bash in etc/shells and also changed the permissions of bash to match those of the previous shell (csh), but i still cant su, i could su before i set the shell as bash and on my lin box i can su, what else could be wrong?

ok when i su from my user, bash says :
$ >su root
Password:
su: bash: No such file or directory
bash is there though, and when i login everything is fine, but when i su thats when things get messed up.

I think: maybe your bash has problem. Let's reinstall bash from package or use another Shell

maybe so, i think maybe the problem could be cause bash is installed in my home directory? i was too anxious and didnt care to copy the tgz to another directory, well ill try it and let you guys know how it went, thanks for the help