Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 08:53:59 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question Message-ID: <78710.947055239@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2000 16:53:48 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001041651300.49171-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 16:53:48 GMT, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > hmmm.. i thought 'toor' should have a home account for maintenance > activities, right? Or wrong? That's where i leave my scripts for cvsup > and kernel compiling. I thought the idea was to use root only for > emergencies, and minimizing the number of writes to the root partition. This is UNIX, there isn't a difference between emergencies and maintenance. :-) Where'd you pick up this use of toor, though? Perhaps you know something I don't. Ages ago, I picked up from my guru that toor is simply a username that you use to log in as root but with a Bourne / Bourne Again shell. Think about it. Some programs are interested in your username, and will figure everything out from that. But some programs are interested in your UID and work from that. What will the latter class of program do when it encounters UID 0 and needs to find the home directory? Get the picture? :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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