Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:36:17 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Michael Rothenberg <rothenberg@automationonline.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user toor? and other things seen w/ vipw Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910261932470.71794-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991026092433.007274e8@slider>
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Michael Rothenberg wrote: >I took a quick look with vipw and figured out what most of the stuff might >be. However, I couldn't figure out what the user 'toor' is for? Also, why >is the name 'Charlie' in the line for the root user? Charlie is just because. toor is special. You can keep the user toor around with a non-standard shell like bash. This allows you to set root's shell as sh seperately from toor. In the event of trouble, bash may not always work, but sh should still work. I never use 'root' anymore. I always 'su toor' when I need to be superuser. This is because I like to use bash. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells/ Jason Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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