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Cc: Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Death to toor
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John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> writes:
> Which is useless unless someone sets a password for it, or installs
> a port like sudo that lets you to switch to it...  For me, I always
> change root's shell to /bin/sh, so I could care less about toor...
> and since less is usually better, my vote is to drop it..  It's easy
> enough to add it back..
>
> Time marches on..

It does no harm, many people use it (regardless of your opinion of its
usefulness), and it is a piece of BSD history.  Allow me to quote from
src/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8:

.\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until
.\" the time_t's wrap around.

DES
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