From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 02:21:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16843 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 02:21:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16823 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 02:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.02 #26) id 0zDjyz-0007PN-00; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 07:32:01 +0100 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 07:32:01 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Choi Young Jin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] What is the "toor" in '/etc/passwd'? Message-ID: <19980901073201.A28110@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Choi Young Jin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <35EAECFC.193A17E8@ccs.sogang.ac.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Satya Devireddy wrote: > 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... `passwd toor' as root. or `echo foo | pw usermod toor -h 0' if you really want. But don't use foo as a password unless you're really silly -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message