Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 14:07:16 -0600 From: John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com> To: Mikeluis <phj@mail.transfar.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the toor in /etc/passwd ? Message-ID: <32CAC3F4.DE95A5BA@raccoon.com> References: <3731BE47.F86A29A0@mail.transfar.com>
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Well when I was supporting BSD 4.2 and BSD 2.9 on VAX and PDPs, toor was used to get quickly into the system. On these slower machines (or when there was a run away process) toor would start Bourne shell and you could get logged in faster than starting up csh. It might take 2-3 minutes to get logged in using csh. Especially on PDPs with out virtual memory! So the main difference between the two is which shell gets started. Mikeluis wrote: > > Please tell me what the toor is . > > in /etc/passwd > root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh > toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: > > thanks . > > mikeluis. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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