Re: zsh as root login

[Duncan Sargeant <dunc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Writer wrote on Wed August 27, at 19:20 -0400:
> I prefer to keep root dead simple, using /bin/sh without evan a
> .profile.  In an emergency, I can (almost) always login as root.  For
> day to day administration, I have a second root account (uid 0 but a
> different login name) which has zsh and a full set of startup files as
> its login shell.

That's sort of what I like to do to.  I export ZDOTDIR in my user
shell, and use this function for su: 
function su {
  command su ${*:--c zsh}
}

It gives my a nice root shell when I su, without annoying the rest
of wheel with the extra uid 0 account.  It may not suit your needs
depending on how paranoid you are with your regular zsh configuration,
and how paranoid you want to be as root ;-)

cheers
,dunc
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