From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 9:31:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [194.17.208.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF9037B41A for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:31:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.simx.org (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by rambo.simx.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g17HVRZ62069; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:31:29 GMT (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3C62B9EE.3020009@rambo.simx.org> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 18:31:26 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: toor? References: <001e01c1af94$a14e04f0$2300a8c0@zeus> <20020207091505.A1036@encephalon.de> <20020207172522.GA2088@raggedclown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Cliff Sarginson wrote: >On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:15:05AM +0100, Roger Kaputtnik wrote: > >>Hi. >> >>>Can someone please explain to me what 'toor' is for and its use? >>>Thanks... >>> >>It is "root" spelled backwards. You cant use this user, because this on has a * in the passwd. >>Give him a password and this on is as powerful as root is, well he is also root. >>1. Delete this one, you dont need it >>2. Give him a password and use this one if you lost your root password, or some other shit happend to you root account. >> >>The best choice is to delete this guy. imho >> > >It is not your best choice. > >If you want a root user with /bin/sh instead of /bin/csh then give toor >a password, the same one as root if you like, and use toor. >If you prefer to use the csh as root then use root. > >It is purely a matter of your preference. >That is why the choice is there. >Since actions performed as root are critical to system operation is >perhaps wiser to use a shell you are familiar with than one with which >you are not. > Could someone explain why you cant just chsh or vipw roots shell to bash, sh or whatever? I cant see any good reason to have two root accounts just because you dont like the default root shell. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message