[indiana-discuss] scope

Josh Hurst joshhurst at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 08:36:22 PDT 2007


On 8/8/07, Richard Elling <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote:
> Keith Bierman wrote:
> > So if the goal is to make not yet Solaris users maximally at home,
> > shouldn't the default be bash?
>
> bash is the default for user accounts added with the GUI.

Which GUI?

> I presume the flamage here is based on the default for the root account.

The flamage here is based on /bin/sh. /bin/sh is a the Bourne shell
(not BourneAgainShell aka bash), creating pain for those who want to
port or write applications for Solaris.

Josh



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