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From: mark@type49.com (mark drayton)
Subject: Re: docs/25656: New FAQ entry for 'toor' account (PATCH)
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The following reply was made to PR docs/25656; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: mark@type49.com (mark drayton)
To: dima@unixfreak.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/25656: New FAQ entry for 'toor' account (PATCH)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:46:06 +0000 (GMT)

 diffed against doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.154
 
 --- /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml	Wed Mar 14 06:40:16 2001
 +++ book.sgml	Wed Mar 14 10:26:09 2001
 @@ -6303,6 +6303,40 @@
        </qandaentry>
  
        <qandaentry>
 +        <question id="toor-account">
 +          <para>What's this UID 0 'toor' account? Have I been compromised?</para>
 +        </question>
 +
 +        <answer>
 +          <para>Don't worry. <username>toor</username> is an 'alternative'
 +            superuser account (toor is root spelt backwards). Previously
 +            it was created when the &man.bash.1; shell was installed but
 +            recently it has been created by default. It is intended to
 +            be used with a non-standard shell so you don't have to
 +            change <username>root</username>'s default shell. This is
 +            important as shells which aren't part of the base
 +            distribution (for example a shell installed from ports or
 +            packages) are likely be to be installed in
 +            <filename>/usr/local/bin</filename> which, by default,
 +            resides on a different disk partition. If <username>root</username>'s
 +            shell is located in <filename> /usr/local/bin</filename>
 +            and <filename>/usr</filename> (or whatever partition
 +            contains <filename>/usr/local/bin</filename>) is unmountable
 +            for some reason, <username>root</username> won't be able to
 +            log in to fix the problem (although if you reboot into
 +            single user mode you'll be prompted for the path to a shell).</para>          <para>Some people use <username>toor</username> for day-to-day
 +            root tasks with a non-standard shell, leaving <username>root</username>
 +            (with <filename>/bin/csh</filename> or <filename>/bin/sh</filename>)            for single user mode or emergencies. By default you can't
 +            log in using <username>toor</username> as it doesn't have a
 +            password, so log in as root and set a password for
 +            <username>toor</username>:</para>
 +            <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>passwd toor</userinput></screen>
 +
 +          <para>then log out and try logging in as <username>toor</username>.</para>
 +        </answer>
 +      </qandaentry>
 +
 +      <qandaentry>
          <question id="forgot-root-pw">
            <para>Eek! I forgot the root password!</para>
          </question><answer>

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