Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:08:39 -0800 From: Lawrence Sica <larry@interactivate.com> To: Guillermo Leandro <guille@galileo.or.cr> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default users and the passwords Message-ID: <3A6E7F77.6DFC4A3E@interactivate.com> References: <01012315244000.00612@aristoteles.local.galileo.or.cr>
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Guillermo Leandro wrote: > Hi everybody! > > FreeBSD, like almost all Unix OS, has other default users, like uucp, > operator, etc. Since this users cames with the FreeBSD distribution, where > can I find their passwords? > they don't have any, the pseudo users and system accounts dont have a login shell and their passwords should be set to * as well. Be careful if you remove them since on a make world certain users are expected, same with groups. > > Another thing, why is there another uid 0 called toor? Isn't it a potential > security hole? > toor is a big debate for many, its meant to give you another root shell with a differing shell, like bash,zsh,ksh whatever. Reason is you dont wan to mess with root's shell. Someone compared root to a loaded weapon recently, its a good analogy since you dont use root unless you mean it and you have to be careful. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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