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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Michael Rothenberg <rothenberg@automationonline.com>
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Subject: Re: user toor? and other things seen w/ vipw 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:24:33 -0400."
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:24:33 -0400, Michael Rothenberg wrote:

> I took a quick look with vipw and figured out what most of the stuff might
> be. However, I couldn't figure out what the user 'toor' is for?

Toor is the traditional "Bourne Super-User". Many folks find it
convenient to log in as toor and become root but with /bin/sh as the
shell instead of /bin/csh.

> Also, why is the name 'Charlie' in the line for the root user?

For fun. Seriously.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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