From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 7:55:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ne.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ne.home.com [24.2.4.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7132437B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:55:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from cx443070b ([24.0.36.170]) by mail.rdc1.ne.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001031155520.UAYZ16034.mail.rdc1.ne.home.com@cx443070b>; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:55:20 -0800 Message-ID: <007401c04353$4834a490$aa240018@cx443070b> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven" , "Sean Kelly" Cc: References: <20001031012526.A12381@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20001031083935.B70436@lucifer.bart.nl> Subject: Re: toor Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:57:30 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -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. Yeah, as in ToorCon http://www.toorcon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message