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Date:      Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:19:22 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Death to toor
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.53.0506101759550.28720@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, John Baldwin wrote:

Hi,

> 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.

I often use toor with a different passphrase that only I know when
installing machines and it safed me a boot more often than I had wished.

As long as it doesn't harm I wouldn't remove it.

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
		How about a nice game of chess?



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