From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 7:38:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED9B14EFB for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:38:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA71971; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:36:17 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:36:17 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Michael Rothenberg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user toor? and other things seen w/ vipw In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991026092433.007274e8@slider> 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 On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, 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? Also, why >is the name 'Charlie' in the line for the root user? Charlie is just because. toor is special. You can keep the user toor around with a non-standard shell like bash. This allows you to set root's shell as sh seperately from toor. In the event of trouble, bash may not always work, but sh should still work. I never use 'root' anymore. I always 'su toor' when I need to be superuser. This is because I like to use bash. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells/ Jason Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message