Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:54:02 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Death to toor Message-ID: <20050612025402.GD67746@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <53d4293a37f280317d52338c2fc6fc6d@FreeBSD.org> References: <53d4293a37f280317d52338c2fc6fc6d@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:40:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > Is there any good reason to keep the toor account around nowadays? Yes. Some of us use it. > vipw has existed since 4.0BSD and chsh and friends have existed since > 4.3BSD-Reno so I think that it's safe to say that folks are more than > capable nowadays of changing root's default shell if desired. I wouldn't say we are totally safe changing root's default shell away from /bin/csh. We still see people give the advice that one should not change root's default shell. > Also, > '/bin/csh' and '/bin/sh' aren't very hard to type once you are logged > in as root whatever the default shell may be. We could default to only /bin/sh as the login shell globally. 'csh', 'zsh', 'bash' aren't very hard to type once you are logged in. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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