[indiana-discuss] [docs-discuss] review request: user FAQ

[Roland Mainz]

William Pursell wrote:
> On 8/31/07, Richard Elling <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote:
> > minor corrections below...
> > Robert Neville wrote:
> > > On 8/31/07, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
[snip]
> > > satisfy backward compatibility to historic releases of Solaris but
> > > will switch to ksh93 as soon as possible during project Indiana.
> > > A2: The default user shell may be selected using useradd or usermod,
> > > recommended is ksh93. It is more standards compliant, has all of the
> > > features you love about bash, and more. It also happens to be the best
> > > scripting shell available.
> >
> > useradd defaults to no shell entry which in turn causes login to use the
> > default system shell.  The Users and Groups applet defaults to /bin/bash.
> 
> Why does the applet default to /bin/bash on Solaris?

ksh93 was only putback recently (e.g. B72) and the matching Gnome applet
was originally written for Linux...

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Roland

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