Re: Death to toor

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

  • Next message: John-Mark Gurney: "Re: Death to toor"
    Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:08:41 -0700
    To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
    
    

    On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 09:02:25PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
    > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:38:43PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote:
    > > As to the status of toor, I say remove it. Anyone that wants to keep it
    > > can skip that mergemaster step.
    >
    > BSD has historically had a toor account. A person who installs
    > FreeBSD from a CD created after toor removal will not have a
    > toor account. How does mergemaster restore a historical
    > toor account?
    >
    > This is a really dumb bikeshed. toor is 1 uid out of
    > a rather large number of possible uid's.

    Actually toor does not even consume a uid. (since 0 is already used by
    root)

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

  • Next message: John-Mark Gurney: "Re: Death to toor"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: Death to toor
      ... >> As to the status of toor, ... > BSD has historically had a toor account. ... How does mergemaster restore a historical ... Which is useless unless someone sets a password for it, or installs ...
      (freebsd-arch)
    • Re: Death to toor
      ... BSD has historically had a toor account. ... How does mergemaster restore a historical ...
      (freebsd-arch)
    • Re: root password and su (maybe)
      ... > forgetting what he set it to (he thinks this is a good thing for security) ... Easiest is to create another user with uid 0 (toor, admin, whatever) and ...
      (RedHat)
    • Re: questions regarding sh shell
      ... > looked at for a user loging in. ... > You will need to add a password for toor after doing the above ... And it confirms that root and toor have their own passwords (which can ... an UID each. ...
      (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc)
    • create two users with same uid
      ... Do you know the users root and toor? ... I have a user created which I use as my everyday logon. ... planning to create another one, but I'd like this to have the same uid. ...
      (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc)