[TriLUG] to delete root, or not too?

[Alan Porter]

> Another interesting note, is that on most *BSD systems, the root 
> user's shell is csh.  This causes some pain for those people who 
> aren't familiar with it, but since all the boot scripts are written in 
> csh, and run with the root user's shell, you can't reasonably change 
> it and then reboot the system.

Any shell programmer worth his salt would explicitly specify the shell 
interpreter in the first line of all shell scripts (the first line 
should contain #!/bin/myshell).  Otherwise, it depends on reading the 
running user's preferred shell (in most cases, from the current value of 
the $SHELL variable).

If these shell scripts were written properly, then it would not matter 
which login shell was in /etc/passwd under the entry for 'root'.  And it 
would not matter which shell the user happened to be running when he 
issued commands.

Anything else is just plain sloppiness.

Alan