Death to toor

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Fri Jun 10 09:17:30 GMT 2005


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?  
> vipw has existed since 4.0BSD and chsh and friends have existed since 
> 4.3BSD-Reno so I think that it's safe to say that folks are more than 
> capable nowadays of changing root's default shell if desired.  Also, 
> '/bin/csh' and '/bin/sh' aren't very hard to type once you are logged 
> 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
-- 
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)
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