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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


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