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Date:      Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:08:09 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Death to toor
Message-ID:  <86vf4kt5ly.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20050612045550.GG742@funkthat.com> (John-Mark Gurney's message of "Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:55:50 -0700")
References:  <53d4293a37f280317d52338c2fc6fc6d@FreeBSD.org> <20050612025402.GD67746@dragon.NUXI.org> <42ABAE43.1000704@criticalmagic.com> <20050612040224.GA6790@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050612045550.GG742@funkthat.com>

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John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> writes:
> Which is useless unless someone sets a password for it, or installs
> a port like sudo that lets you to switch to it...  For me, I always
> change root's shell to /bin/sh, so I could care less about toor...
> and since less is usually better, my vote is to drop it..  It's easy
> enough to add it back..
>
> Time marches on..

It does no harm, many people use it (regardless of your opinion of its
usefulness), and it is a piece of BSD history.  Allow me to quote from
src/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8:

.\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until
.\" the time_t's wrap around.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no




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