Re: Death to toor

From: Garance A Drosehn (gad_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 06/10/05

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    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
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