From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 8 23:11: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from slip1.raccoon.com (slip1.raccoon.com [165.90.135.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D6214D0D for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 23:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnl@raccoon.com) Received: from raccoon.com (dsl-ip145.networkiowa.com [165.90.140.145]) by slip1.raccoon.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA25813; Sun, 9 May 1999 01:05:27 -0500 Message-ID: <32CAC3F4.DE95A5BA@raccoon.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 14:07:16 -0600 From: John Lengeling X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikeluis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the toor in /etc/passwd ? References: <3731BE47.F86A29A0@mail.transfar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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