From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 31 22:03:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18992 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kapmail.com ([206.31.219.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA18975 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:03:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from satya@dspsoft.com) Received: (qmail 10508 invoked from network); 1 Sep 1998 05:04:23 -0000 Received: from simba.dspsoft.com (206.31.219.210) by simba.dspsoft.com with SMTP; 1 Sep 1998 05:04:23 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 01:04:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Satya Devireddy X-Sender: satya@srv.kapmail.com To: Choi Young Jin cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: [Q] What is the "toor" in '/etc/passwd'? In-Reply-To: <35EAECFC.193A17E8@ccs.sogang.ac.kr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >One day I found login name 'toor' in /etc/passwd. > >'toor' is reverse order of 'root'!! > > I want the respone about 'toor'!! I think it is a backup root login with a simple sh. so incase you were unable to login as root due to say a corrupt shell, you can use toor to login to a simple shell. I do not know how to activate the account. I cannot seem to use passwd on it or login using the root passwd. Can some one give more info... thanks -Satya ----------------- Satya Devireddy satya@dspsoft.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message