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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Choi Jun Ho <junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr>
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Subject: Re: why 'toor'?
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On 8 May 1997, Choi Jun Ho wrote:

> >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?

I think you answered your question.

'root' is to be used with 'sh' a statically linked binary in case /usr
isn't
mounted.

'toor' can use a dynamically linked 'bash' and be equivalent to root.

Whether or not this is good practice