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Date:      Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:17:29 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Death to toor
Message-ID:  <20050610091729.GD14221@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <53d4293a37f280317d52338c2fc6fc6d@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <53d4293a37f280317d52338c2fc6fc6d@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:40:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> Is there any good reason to keep the toor account around nowadays? =20
> vipw has existed since 4.0BSD and chsh and friends have existed since=20
> 4.3BSD-Reno so I think that it's safe to say that folks are more than=20
> capable nowadays of changing root's default shell if desired.  Also,=20
> '/bin/csh' and '/bin/sh' aren't very hard to type once you are logged=20
> in as root whatever the default shell may be.

Agreed.  The only strand of usefulness it may still have would be to
make its shell a static one, but I don't see the need for that either.

Ceri
--=20
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)

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