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Date:      Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:52:07 +0900
From:      Choi Young Jin <s198322@ccs.sogang.ac.kr>
To:        Satya Devireddy <satya@dspsoft.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   [Q] 
Message-ID:  <35EB4537.162950F6@ccs.sogang.ac.kr>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809010059420.10074-100000@srv.kapmail.com>

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> > >One day I found login name 'toor' in /etc/passwd.
> > >'toor' is reverse order of 'root'!!
> > > I want the respone about 'toor'!!
>
> I think it is a backup root login with a simple sh. so incase
> you were unable to login as root due to say a corrupt shell,
> you can use toor to login to a simple shell.
>
> I do not know how to activate the account. I cannot seem
> to use passwd on it or login using the root passwd.
>
> Can some one give more info...
>

Thank for your mail!!

This file is my /etc/passwd .
----------------------------------
root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
daemon:*:1:1:Owner of many system processes:/root:/nonexistent
    .
    .
    .
-----------------------------------

> I had forgotten my root passward , so I had asked this problem to my
friend!!
> Then he had logged in root ! I had be surprised !!
>  would asked how to log in!! But he would not inform !!
> At that time, maybe he had used 'toor'!!
> So I asked about this related LOG IN!!

Thanks !!

Jin
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http://oslab.sogang.ac.kr




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