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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 04:05:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: mudman <mudman@R181204.resnet.ucsb.edu>
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Subject: root & toor
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What is the user "toor" for?  I suspect it is a security implementation
somehow based on the reversed spelling of "root," but its detailed
significance is not known to me.



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