Re: Death to toor

From: David O'Brien (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 06/12/05

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    Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:54:02 -0700
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?

    Yes. Some of us use it.

    > 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.

    I wouldn't say we are totally safe changing root's default shell away
    from /bin/csh. We still see people give the advice that one should not
    change root's default shell.

    > 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.

    We could default to only /bin/sh as the login shell globally.
    'csh', 'zsh', 'bash' aren't very hard to type once you are logged in. 

    -- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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