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From: Domas Mituzas <domas.mituzas@delfi.lt>
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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.

toor has bourne shell, root has C shell. the only difference, afaik.

Regards,
Domas Mituzas


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