Re: Death to toor

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 06/12/05

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    To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:08:09 +0200

    John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> writes:
    > Which is useless unless someone sets a password for it, or installs
    > a port like sudo that lets you to switch to it... For me, I always
    > change root's shell to /bin/sh, so I could care less about toor...
    > and since less is usually better, my vote is to drop it.. It's easy
    > enough to add it back..
    >
    > Time marches on..

    It does no harm, many people use it (regardless of your opinion of its
    usefulness), and it is a piece of BSD history. Allow me to quote from
    src/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8:

    .\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until
    .\" the time_t's wrap around.

    DES 

    -- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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