Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:25:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001051422550.58511-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <78710.947055239@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Sheldon Hearn 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.
>
>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.
Well, i was trying to combine 2 concepts: leaving the root account
unchanged ('thou shalt not change thy root shell') and minimize writes to
the root partition. Since i have several scripts that i regularly edit
and run for cvsup, kernel compiles, etc, i thought it would make sense to
give toor a user directory with these scripts. Now i have full access
(UID 0) and whatever shell i want (zsh for now) and i'm not writing to the
root partition. But maybe i have the wrong idea here...
-=> jm <=-
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