Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:19:04 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shells for you and shells for me Message-ID: <19981027041904.32792@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199810261902.MAA21553@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 12:02:13PM -0700 References: <19981026125133.A2717@netmonger.net> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810261930580.27042-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> <199810261902.MAA21553@mt.sri.com>
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On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 12:02:13PM -0700, Nate Williams woke me up to tell me:
> > > Just keep the damn /bin/sh we have now. Who actually uses it as their
> > > login shell? Nobody. It's there to write /bin/sh scripts, which by
> >
> > I do. I always change shell for root account from /bin/csh to /bin/sh.
>
> That's what the 'toor' account is there for. The only difference
> between it and root is the shell.
Whee! So I'm not the only one who does this?
{~} mortis:{358} %head -2 /etc/passwd
root:*:0:0:SysAdmin:/root:/bin/sh
toor:*:0:0:SysAdmin part deux:/root:/bin/tcsh
{~} mortis:{359} %which su
su: aliased to su toor
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