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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:45:56 -0400
From:      media@ct1.nai.net
To:        dima@unixfreak.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: changing root shell??
Message-ID:  <v03130305b6120726511b@[209.150.34.51]>
In-Reply-To: <20001014210437.E41B61F03@static.unixfreak.org>
References:  <v03130302b60dfbae4a1e@[209.150.34.194]> "from media@ct1.nai.net at Oct 14, 2000 04:09:45 pm"

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At 2:04 PM -0700 10/14/00, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>
>I think some people say that because they've upgraded their system
>using `make world`, but didn't update /stand, so when they run a three
>year old version of sysinstall on a brand new system, something goes
>wrong--and you can't blame it.

Thanx :)  That's a very good explanation.

>They're both uid 0, so I don't see how toor is any more accessable
>than root.  All restrictions (no telent/ftp logins) apply to both of
>them.  Maybe whoever said that was referring to the case where you
>forget your root password and don't have physical access to the host
>in question.

So why should I activate toor??  I don't need remote access.  If I can't
get at the computer, I have a bigger problem of being locked out of my
house.

>Things like chsh and vipw do it for you.  If possible, you should use
>them.  If not, look at `man pwd_mkdb`.

OK :)

>That's good.  Your local programs should go into /usr/local, just like
>how you have it.

OK :)

>As multiple people have suggest before, doing "setenv EDITOR ee" in
>(t)csh or "export EDITOR=ee" in (ba)sh will change the default
>editor.  You can add those to your .cshrc or .profile to run when you
>log in for csh and sh respevitly.

Thanx!!





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