[indiana-discuss] Default Shell

[David.Comay at Sun.COM]

> So, has it be determined that bash will be the default shell for Indiana, or could it still be switched to ksh93 (With an easy option for bash when you create your initial user maybe)

Bash was selected for this preview as an experiment since there seemed
to be a consensus that having a familiar shell for *interactive*
purposes was important.  The idea of having a shell option on the
"initial user" screen is a great one - could you please file a RFE at
http://defect.opensolaris.org/ so we can capture this.

Of course, the other tools for creating new users such as useradd(1M)
and users-admin(1) already include the ability to select a shell for
the new user.

> I tried to search the forum for this, but i dint not find anything directly related, but i guess it probably here somewhere.
>
> I read Rolands mail "About shells in Indiana/OpenSolaris...", but no decision on which way it would go.

Remember, there's a difference between the interactive shell used by
users and the default scripting shell, namely what's /bin/sh.  I would
argue that being familiar to new users coming from other operating
systems should be weighed more heavily in the interactive case; in the
scripting case, having something which has a history of compatibility
and perhaps implements a well-known standard such as POSIX is a worthy
goal.

dsc