Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 09:03:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: original man <ikhala@osibisa.cl.msu.edu> Cc: child@prairie.lakes.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SuperUser Message-ID: <19980131090337.11467@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199801302203.WAA12144@osibisa.cl.msu.edu>; from original man on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 10:03:20PM %2B0000 References: <199801302203.WAA12144@osibisa.cl.msu.edu>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 10:03:20PM +0000, original man wrote: > >> From child@prairie.lakes.com Fri Jan 30 21:28:07 1998 >> X-Sender: child@sommer >> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:26:25 -0600 >> To: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >> From: Child <child@prairie.lakes.com> >> Subject: SuperUser >> Mime-Version: 1.0 >> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" >> >> Ok I use Freebsd but I wonder >> what the heck is >> toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: >> >> anyone know?:/ >> > toor (= root spelled backwards) is another userid for root. Having at least one other user > account with root privilege gives you the following (not necessarily in descending order): > > 1. Another way to access the system in case you forget root's password > 2. A method of assigning trusted users root access without them sharing a single userid > (you can keep track of what trusted user is doing what.) How do you do that? They both get user ID 0, and the password routines are stupid enough to give you the wrong one when you try to change back. > 3. I'm sure someone else can think of other reasons Give you different shells, for example. Greg
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