From owner-freebsd-security Thu Dec 7 14:49:30 2000 From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 14:49:27 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obivon.nren.nasa.gov (obivon.nren.nasa.gov [198.10.1.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFC237B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:49:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by obivon.nren.nasa.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eB7MnLQ11849 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:49:21 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: obivon.nren.nasa.gov: matt owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:49:21 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Chew Spence To: Subject: toor account Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If: 1) I am running a relatively fast machine (no vaxen here) 2) I am not worried about forgetting the root password or corrupting root's shell 3) The box is not production and can be taken into single user mode w/o impacting much of anyone would the toor account have any useful purpose, or can I just blow it away? Bonus question: Are the root restrictions (ie no tty login, no console login, no ssh login) and logging automatically relevant to toor, or do I need to configure all that stuff explicitly for toor? Thanks, Matt _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Matt Chew Spence Network Engineer/Systems Engineer matt@nren.nasa.gov NASA Research & Education Network (650) 604-4550 (voice) Ames Research Center Mail Stop 233-21 (650) 604-3080 (fax) Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message