Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:33:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing root shell?? Message-ID: <14824.46370.61481.896187@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <29440009@toto.iv>
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Ryan Thompson writes: > People tend to forget about, or have no knowledge of, the 'toor' user. > > Give toor your chosen shell (chsh toor), assign her a password, and do > your root duties from that account, leaving the real root account with the > default shell. Best of both worlds, really, for about 99.5% of all > sysadmin duties on a production machine. If a 'toor' account was not > created on your system, just add another user after root with uid = 0, gid > = 0 and remake the password db. toor makes me nervous - I delete it regularly. On the other hand, "alias su='su -m'" means that I get my current environment when I su. Shell, environment, home directory, etc. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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