From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 22: 7:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C7037B405 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:07:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Yhir-000Gbc-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 06:07:53 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 00E7B13040 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:07:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id 47DA522590; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:07:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:07:52 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: toor? Message-ID: <20020207060752.GA7234@raggedclown.net> References: <001e01c1af94$a14e04f0$2300a8c0@zeus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001e01c1af94$a14e04f0$2300a8c0@zeus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:02:22PM -0800, Patrick Fish wrote: > Can someone please explain to me what 'toor' is for and its use? > Thanks... > toor = root, spelt backwards It is a root login using a Bourne Shell instead of a C shell. So you can use it if you need root priveleges but don't care to use the csh. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message