From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 23:39:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF00737B4CF for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:39:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.ninth-circle.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9V7da671816; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:39:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:39:36 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Sean Kelly Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: toor Message-ID: <20001031083935.B70436@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <20001031012526.A12381@edgemaster.zombie.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001031012526.A12381@edgemaster.zombie.org>; from smkelly@zombie.org on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:25:26AM -0600 Organisation: VIA Net.Works The Netherlands Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20001031 08:30], Sean Kelly (smkelly@zombie.org) wrote: >I was talking with some people who were installing FreeBSD, and they were >instructed to remove the 'toor' entry in the password file. I was just >curious, what exactly is the point to having a 'toor' with uid 0? To have a backup root account. toor = root spelled backwards in case people didn't notice yet. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl That's your Destiny, the only chance, take it, take it in your hands... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message