From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 00:50:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA07134 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 00:50:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ccs.sogang.ac.kr (ccs.sogang.ac.kr [163.239.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA07089 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 00:49:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from s198322@ccs.sogang.ac.kr) Received: from oslab0.sogang.ac.kr by ccs.sogang.ac.kr (8.8.8/Sogang) id QAA04169; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:46:37 +0900 (KST) Received: from ccs.sogang.ac.kr by oslab0.sogang.ac.kr (8.8.8/SMI-SVR4) id QAA28707; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:40:45 +0900 (KST) Message-ID: <35EB4537.162950F6@ccs.sogang.ac.kr> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:52:07 +0900 From: Choi Young Jin Organization: Sogang Uni. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-971225-SNAP i386) X-Accept-Language: ko,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Satya Devireddy CC: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: [Q] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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... > Thank for your mail!! This file is my /etc/passwd . ---------------------------------- root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: daemon:*:1:1:Owner of many system processes:/root:/nonexistent . . . ----------------------------------- > 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 ------ s198322@ccs.sogang.ac.kr http://oslab.sogang.ac.kr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message