From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 5:30: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF9C37B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 05:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA41969 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:53:13 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.1/8.10.0) id e9VDTmD03639 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:29:48 +0300 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:29:48 +0300 From: Igor Roboul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: toor Message-ID: <20001031162948.B2696@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20001031012526.A12381@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20001031083935.B70436@lucifer.bart.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <20001031083935.B70436@lucifer.bart.nl>; from jruigrok@via-net-works.nl on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:39:36AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:39:36AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20001031 08:30], Sean Kelly (smkelly@zombie.org) wrote: > >I was talking with some people who were installing FreeBSD, and they were > >instructed to remove the 'toor' entry in the password file. I was just > >curious, what exactly is the point to having a 'toor' with uid 0? > > To have a backup root account. > > toor = root spelled backwards in case people didn't notice yet. It _can't_ be backup "root" just because by default you can't login with toor :-) Look at other post for reasonable description -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message