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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:08:41 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Death to toor
Message-ID:  <20050612040841.GF67746@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050612040224.GA6790@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <53d4293a37f280317d52338c2fc6fc6d@FreeBSD.org> <20050612025402.GD67746@dragon.NUXI.org> <42ABAE43.1000704@criticalmagic.com> <20050612040224.GA6790@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 09:02:25PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:38:43PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote:
> > As to the status of toor, I say remove it.  Anyone that wants to keep it 
> > can skip that mergemaster step.
> 
> BSD has historically had a toor account.  A person who installs
> FreeBSD from a CD created after toor removal will not have a 
> toor account.  How does mergemaster restore a historical
> toor account?
> 
> This is a really dumb bikeshed.  toor is 1 uid out of
> a rather large number of possible uid's.

Actually toor does not even consume a uid.  (since 0 is already used by
root)

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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