Re: Death to toor

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb (bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net)
Date: 06/10/05

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    On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, John Baldwin wrote:

    Hi,

    > 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.

    I often use toor with a different passphrase that only I know when
    installing machines and it safed me a boot more often than I had wished.

    As long as it doesn't harm I wouldn't remove it. 

    -- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
		How about a nice game of chess?
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