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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:54:02 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Death to toor
Message-ID:  <20050612025402.GD67746@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <53d4293a37f280317d52338c2fc6fc6d@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <53d4293a37f280317d52338c2fc6fc6d@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:40:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> Is there any good reason to keep the toor account around nowadays?  

Yes.  Some of us use it.

> vipw has existed since 4.0BSD and chsh and friends have existed since 
> 4.3BSD-Reno so I think that it's safe to say that folks are more than 
> capable nowadays of changing root's default shell if desired.

I wouldn't say we are totally safe changing root's default shell away
from /bin/csh.  We still see people give the advice that one should not
change root's default shell.

> Also, 
> '/bin/csh' and '/bin/sh' aren't very hard to type once you are logged 
> in as root whatever the default shell may be.

We could default to only /bin/sh as the login shell globally.
'csh', 'zsh', 'bash' aren't very hard to type once you are logged in.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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