Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:57:30 -0800 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: "Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven" <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>, "Sean Kelly" <smkelly@zombie.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: toor Message-ID: <007401c04353$4834a490$aa240018@cx443070b> References: <20001031012526.A12381@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20001031083935.B70436@lucifer.bart.nl>
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> -On [20001031 08:30], Sean Kelly (smkelly@zombie.org) wrote: > >I was talking with some people who were installing FreeBSD, and they were > >instructed to remove the 'toor' entry in the password file. I was just > >curious, what exactly is the point to having a 'toor' with uid 0? > > To have a backup root account. > > toor = root spelled backwards in case people didn't notice yet. Yeah, as in ToorCon http://www.toorcon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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