Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:29:48 +0300 From: Igor Roboul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: toor Message-ID: <20001031162948.B2696@linux.rainbow> In-Reply-To: <20001031083935.B70436@lucifer.bart.nl>; from jruigrok@via-net-works.nl on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:39:36AM %2B0100 References: <20001031012526.A12381@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20001031083935.B70436@lucifer.bart.nl>
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:39:36AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -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. It _can't_ be backup "root" just because by default you can't login with toor :-) Look at other post for reasonable description -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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