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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>,
	Wouter <wouter@spierenburg.net>
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Subject: Re: Renaming root account
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On 2005-03-03 13:53, Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:22:05 +0100, Wouter <wouter@spierenburg.net> wrote:
>> Renaming root is generally a bad idea, what you could do, however, is set a
>> password on(thus enabling) the "toor" account and set root's shell to
>> /sbin/nologin
>
> Sorry for interfering with this discussion.
>
> I would like to know what are the advantages of using "toor" against
> using the normal root account.  They have the same UID, then they
> actually are the same account, aren't they?

In my opinion, absolutely none at all.  People should never change the
default shell of root from /bin/csh and "toor" is just a hack to please
those who are too bored to type:

	% exec bash