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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:39:36 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>
To:        Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: toor
Message-ID:  <20001031083935.B70436@lucifer.bart.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20001031012526.A12381@edgemaster.zombie.org>; from smkelly@zombie.org on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:25:26AM -0600
References:  <20001031012526.A12381@edgemaster.zombie.org>

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-On [20001031 08:30], Sean Kelly (smkelly@zombie.org) wrote:
>I was talking with some people who were installing FreeBSD, and they were
>instructed to remove the 'toor' entry in the password file.  I was just
>curious, what exactly is the point to having a 'toor' with uid 0?

To have a backup root account.

toor = root spelled backwards in case people didn't notice yet.

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven          Network- and systemadministrator
<jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>            VIA Net.Works The Netherlands
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