From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 06:01:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973FB16A52C for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:01:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk (yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A1CA43D48 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:01:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf2@hermes.cam.ac.uk) Received: from fanf2 (helo=localhost) by yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1B92kM-0007OB-00; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:00:42 +0100 Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:00:42 +0100 (BST) From: Tony Finch X-X-Sender: fanf2@yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk To: Mike Bristow In-Reply-To: <20040401134415.GA60102@urgle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Tony Finch cc: doc@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org Subject: Re: is this normal? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:01:08 -0000 On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Mike Bristow wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:55:12PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > > http://www2.uk.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT > > (this page says that toor was created when bash was installed) > > I'm not sure that that is correct: version 1.1 of etc/master.passwd > has toor, and searching for log messages regarding the Resu Repus > makes me think that toor has been in FreeBSD's default install for > at least the last 10 years. The toor account was present in the 4.3+BSD master.passwd file when it was created in 1988. It's in the 4.3BSD passwd file dated 1985, but not the 4.2BSD passwd file dated 1983. -- Tony Finch http://dotat.at/