Re: how to enable .bash_history in Voidlinux

[Christian Neukirchen <chneuk...@gmail.com>]

Stefan Mühlinghaus <master...@googlemail.com> writes:

> You can edit /etc/passwd and change roots default shell from /bin/sh to 
> /bin/bash if you want to make the change permanent. For a one-time change 
> you can always just switch the shell by running "exec bash".

Just use chsh(1).

> I personally prefer the second option because that way shell scripts run as 
> root will run under dash which is more restricted by simply having fewer 
> features than bash and thus is somewhat more secure.

This is not true, since almost all shell scripts have a shebang line
of #!/bin/sh (or #!/bin/bash) which is unrelated to the set shell.
(It would indeed make a difference when no shebang is used.)

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