Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:39:26 -0400 From: "William D. Freeman" <wdf@picusnet.com> To: Andrew <andrew@soc.lg.gov.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: toor Message-ID: <38FB686E.35E8B49E@picusnet.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000417171836.5475A-100000@soc.lg.gov.ua>
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--------------DEEF8224CFD8664A333D8747 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It's the root user with the default shell Bourne (/bin/sh). you can't login without a password. everyone has that user, but i don't ever use it unless i did somthing bad to root (only happend once the first time i got a copy of FreeBSD at home). I don't think it would hurt to get rid of it, but i'd keep it for good measures Andrew wrote: > I have user toor with UID 0 in my system. > > Is this security hole? > Why he exists by default? Which purpose? > Can I remove him from the system? > His password? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- William D. Freeman [wdf@picusnet.com] http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GU d? s+:++ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E W++ N- o-- K---- w--- O---- M- V-- PS--- PE++ Y-- PGP---- t+ 5-- X++ R tv b+ --------------DEEF8224CFD8664A333D8747 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> It's the root user with the default shell Bourne (/bin/sh). <br>you can't login without a password. everyone has that user, but i don't ever use it unless i did somthing bad to root (only happend once the first time i got a copy of FreeBSD at home). I don't think it would hurt to get rid of it, but i'd keep it for good measures <br> <br> <br> <p>Andrew wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>I have user toor with UID 0 in my system. <p>Is this security hole? <br>Why he exists by default? Which purpose? <br>Can I remove him from the system? <br>His password? <p>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org <br>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message</blockquote> <pre>-- William D. Freeman [wdf@picusnet.com] <A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU">http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU</A>; -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GU d? s+:++ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E W++ N- o-- K---- w--- O---- M- V-- PS--- PE++ Y-- PGP---- t+ 5-- X++ R tv b+</pre> </html> --------------DEEF8224CFD8664A333D8747-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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