Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:52:07 +0900 From: Choi Young Jin <s198322@ccs.sogang.ac.kr> To: Satya Devireddy <satya@dspsoft.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: [Q] Message-ID: <35EB4537.162950F6@ccs.sogang.ac.kr> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809010059420.10074-100000@srv.kapmail.com>
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> > >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...
>
Thank for your mail!!
This file is my /etc/passwd .
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root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
daemon:*:1:1:Owner of many system processes:/root:/nonexistent
.
.
.
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> I had forgotten my root passward , so I had asked this problem to my
friend!!
> Then he had logged in root ! I had be surprised !!
> would asked how to log in!! But he would not inform !!
> At that time, maybe he had used 'toor'!!
> So I asked about this related LOG IN!!
Thanks !!
Jin
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