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As Tintin said, don't do it!<br />
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But he also made a good suggestion in<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20509368/sh-history-file-not-updating-very-urgent.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20509368/sh-history-file-not-updating-very-urgent.html</a><br />
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However, you should only log in as root when you need to do administrative tasks, so don't make it too easy to use or you'll end up logging as root all the time - and it's very easy to trash the system by mistake if you are root ;-)
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As Tintin said, don't do it!

But he also made a good suggestion in
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20509368/sh-history-file-not-updating-very-urgent.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20509368/sh-history-file-not-updating-very-urgent.html]

However, you should only log in as root when you need to do administrative tasks, so don't make it too easy to use or you'll end up logging as root all the time - and it's very easy to trash the system by mistake if you are root ;-)

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Thank you both for your help. &nbsp;Also thanks for the reason why I have always heard not to use any other shell but sh, Tintin. &nbsp;Also, my mistake, I should have said /sbin/sh instead of /bin/sh. &nbsp;Thanks.
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Thank you both for your help.  Also thanks for the reason why I have always heard not to use any other shell but sh, Tintin.  Also, my mistake, I should have said /sbin/sh instead of /bin/sh.  Thanks.

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I have always heard to leave that the root shell should be /bin/sh, but I would like to change it to bash. &nbsp;I think this would be okay, since bash is backwards compatible to sh in every way I can think of. &nbsp;I just wanted to know if there are any reasons why I should not do this. &nbsp;Thanks.
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I have always heard to leave that the root shell should be /bin/sh, but I would like to change it to bash.  I think this would be okay, since bash is backwards compatible to sh in every way I can think of.  I just wanted to know if there are any reasons why I should not do this.  Thanks.

Can I make the root shell in Solaris 8 and 9 /bin/bash?

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