From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 8 02:30:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA18045 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 May 1997 02:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jazz.snu.ac.kr (jazz.snu.ac.kr [147.46.102.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA18040 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 02:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from junker@localhost) by jazz.snu.ac.kr (8.8.5/8.8.4-procmail) id SAA09501; Thu, 8 May 1997 18:31:31 +0900 (KST) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: why 'toor'? From: Choi Jun Ho Date: 08 May 1997 18:31:31 +0900 Message-ID: Lines: 11 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From all the dist of FreeBSD I've seen, there is an id 'toor', equivalent to 'root'. I heard that is for Bourne-shell root users, but I cannot understand why two root id exist. Is it a some traditional reason or some kind of joke? -- |--Cool FreeBSD!-----MSX Forever!-----J.U.N.K.E.R/Beat Snatchers!--| |Choi Jun Ho http://jazz.snu.ac.kr/~junker| |Distributed Computing System Lab,CS Dept.,Seoul National Univ.,ROK|