From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 9:30:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9B215431 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:30:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip205.r8.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.173.205]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA09318 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:30:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38737EE9.742B7440@nwlink.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 09:27:05 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 <=- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message