Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 23:56:39 GMT From: original man <ikhala@osibisa.cl.msu.edu> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: child@prairie.lakes.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SuperUser Message-ID: <199801312356.XAA14550@osibisa.cl.msu.edu>
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> From grog@lemis.com Fri Jan 30 22:36:08 1998 > Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 09:03:37 +1030 > From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > To: original man <ikhala@osibisa.cl.msu.edu> > Cc: child@prairie.lakes.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: SuperUser > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 > Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 > Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 > WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" > > On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 10:03:20PM +0000, original man wrote: [snippage] > >> Ok I use Freebsd but I wonder > >> what the heck is > >> toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: > >> > >> anyone know?:/ > >> > > toor (= root spelled backwards) is another userid for root. Having at least one other user > > account with root privilege gives you the following (not necessarily in descending order): > > > > 1. Another way to access the system in case you forget root's password > > 2. A method of assigning trusted users root access without them sharing a single userid > > (you can keep track of what trusted user is doing what.) > > How do you do that? They both get user ID 0, and the password > routines are stupid enough to give you the wrong one when you try to > change back. > oops, that slipped past me ... ;-) [more snippage] i'khala
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