Re: Death to toor
From: Garance A Drosehn (gad_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 06/10/05
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:51:51 -0400 To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
At 9:06 AM +0000 6/10/05, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 09, 2005, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Is there any good reason to keep the toor account around nowadays?
>
>I support its death.
I have no strong opinion whether it should stay or go, but I
thought one purpose for it was to allow an alternative to root
if /bin/csh was hosed. I guess you could just boot up into
single-user mode in that case, but I thought the historical
reason for toor were for some things like that. It was not just
that people didn't know how to change the shell for root...
But I don't mind if it goes, because to me it does not seem useful
until you set a password for it. And if you're going to customize
the password file to set that password, then you can just as easily
add whatever alternate-root userids that you personally want. So
having 'toor' in the base system doesn't do much for me.
-- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA _______________________________________________ freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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