Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 09:27:05 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question Message-ID: <38737EE9.742B7440@nwlink.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001051422550.58511-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
>
> 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...
Why do you need toor to use a different shell? I run root using bash
because sh and csh are annoying. Whenever I've had to do a repair and
my /usr partition is not mounted, it defaults to sh.
>
> -=> jm <=-
>
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Best Regards, Joseph
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