From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 6:26:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E9D15387 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 06:26:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 125rNs-0006mV-00; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:25:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA58583; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:25:54 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:25:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question In-Reply-To: <78710.947055239@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message