Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:55:50 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Death to toor Message-ID: <20050612045550.GG742@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050612040224.GA6790@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <53d4293a37f280317d52338c2fc6fc6d@FreeBSD.org> <20050612025402.GD67746@dragon.NUXI.org> <42ABAE43.1000704@criticalmagic.com> <20050612040224.GA6790@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Steve Kargl wrote this message on Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 21:02 -0700:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:38:43PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote:
> > As to the status of toor, I say remove it. Anyone that wants to keep it
> > can skip that mergemaster step.
> >
>
> BSD has historically had a toor account. A person who installs
> FreeBSD from a CD created after toor removal will not have a
> toor account. How does mergemaster restore a historical
> toor account?
Which is useless unless someone sets a password for it, or installs
a port like sudo that lets you to switch to it... For me, I always
change root's shell to /bin/sh, so I could care less about toor...
and since less is usually better, my vote is to drop it.. It's easy
enough to add it back..
Time marches on..
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