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From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Death to toor
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:40:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> Is there any good reason to keep the toor account around nowadays?  
> vipw has existed since 4.0BSD and chsh and friends have existed since 
> 4.3BSD-Reno so I think that it's safe to say that folks are more than 
> capable nowadays of changing root's default shell if desired.  Also, 
> '/bin/csh' and '/bin/sh' aren't very hard to type once you are logged 
> in as root whatever the default shell may be.

IMHO toor has been a nice and harmless rudiment from the Good Old
Days, so the only real reason to drop it is to stop the noise emitted
by the folks who get the thing wrong and keep inventing fantastic
purposes toor allegedly has.  I've seen loads of those on the Net.

-- 
Yar