Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:00:42 +0100 (BST)
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is this normal?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.44.0404011451500.17740-100000@yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20040401134415.GA60102@urgle.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Mike Bristow wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:55:12PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
> > http://www2.uk.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT
>
> (this page says that toor was created when bash was installed)
>
> I'm not sure that that is correct:  version 1.1 of etc/master.passwd
> has toor, and searching for log messages regarding the Resu Repus
> makes me think that toor has been in FreeBSD's default install for
> at least the last 10 years.

The toor account was present in the 4.3+BSD master.passwd file when it
was created in 1988. It's in the 4.3BSD passwd file dated 1985, but not
the 4.2BSD passwd file dated 1983.

-- 
Tony Finch  <dot@dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.SOL.4.44.0404011451500.17740-100000>