[arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

Piscium groknok at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 18:47:17 UTC 2020


On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 19:39, Eli Schwartz via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On 6/17/20 2:36 PM, David Rosenstrauch 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?
>
> This isn't about using it as a login shell. Describing this as "my
> default shell" is a very bad description.
>
> This is actually about setting dash as the system /bin/sh implementation.

Indeed, poor choice of words, sorry for the confusion, however in the
link I provided in my original email [1] it was clear in what sense I
meant it to be a default.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dash#Use_DASH_as_/bin/sh


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