From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 8 13:19:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E173914A14 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 13:19:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Sat, 8 May 1999 16:19:39 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110586D@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Rick Hamell' Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: What is the toor in /etc/passwd ? Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 16:21:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nope.. "toor" is still UID 0 and hence is root (in disguise). There are no in-betweens, no nifty-user or somewhat-super-user. Just 0 and everyone else! :^) You can always use sudo. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Hamell [SMTP:hamellr@dsinw.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 2:02 PM > To: Stefano Riva > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: What is the toor in /etc/passwd ? > > > > >Please tell me what the toor is . > > > > It's a "classic" alias of root (same UID). Linux-style, AFAIK. It's > > useful, for example, when you want to do something as root keeping a > > different environment and/or shell well configured. Define the password, > if > > you want to use it. > > Which poses a question, could you setup a user like an Admin > person who has rights to addusers, move files, etc. But is not able to do > any of the other root procedures. > > > Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message