Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 08:52:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> To: s198322@ccs.sogang.ac.kr, satya@dspsoft.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] What is the "toor" in '/etc/passwd'? Message-ID: <199809011352.IAA26731@plains.NoDak.edu>
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> 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. toor is a backup superuser account. I have been saved several times by having another superuser account when the root account's default shell was corrupted, removed by a crash. the command 'passwd [-l] toor' will set password, and toor has the same restrictions as the root account, a person can only login into that account from a secure console. sudo is the better everyday way of doing superuser commands. next preferable, if you need a superuser shell use su. The downside of having a toor account is one more superuser account that could be broken into. for that reason, I set the toor password by using `vipw' and copying the encrypted password from the root account into the toor account. duplicate the root line, change the "root" account name to "toor" and change the shell. --mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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