Re: Death to toor

From: Ceri Davies (ceri_at_submonkey.net)
Date: 06/10/05

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    Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:17:29 +0100
    To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
    
    
    

    On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:40:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
    > Is there any good reason to keep the toor account around nowadays?
    > vipw has existed since 4.0BSD and chsh and friends have existed since
    > 4.3BSD-Reno so I think that it's safe to say that folks are more than
    > capable nowadays of changing root's default shell if desired. Also,
    > '/bin/csh' and '/bin/sh' aren't very hard to type once you are logged
    > in as root whatever the default shell may be.

    Agreed. The only strand of usefulness it may still have would be to
    make its shell a static one, but I don't see the need for that either.

    Ceri

    -- 
    Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
    not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)
    
    



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