tcsh for root -- ok or not?

[Leif Andersson]

>>>>> On 5 Apr 91 03:01:38 GMT, gplan at sun9.aer.com (George Planansky) said:

George> I'd like to use tcsh as root's shell (specified in the passwd file entry).
George> Will that cause me problems?  

George> Should I infact stick to sh, or csh, for root?

I use tcsh as root, but I also play it safe. This is an excerpt from
our passwd file:

root:6rqAa1yzcafwc:0:1:Operator:/:/bin/csh
troot:6rqAa1yzcafwc:0:1:Operator:/usr/local/etc/root:/usr/local/bin/tcsh

In this way I can almost always log in as troot and use tcsh for
normal system administration. In case of trouble or in special cases I
can log in as root and get csh. As you can see the uid and the
password is the same. I have seen no ill effects from this. The two
accounts have different home directories,  because the troot home is
NFS-mounted on all our workstations. Saves a lot of administration.

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