[arch-general] dash as default shell?

[NTS]

On 17 Jun 2020 8:36 p.m., "David Rosenstrauch" <darose at darose.net> 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.

Best regards,

NTS