Death to toor

[Garance A Drosehn]

At 9:06 AM +0000 6/10/05, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 09, 2005, John Baldwin wrote:
>  > Is there any good reason to keep the toor account around nowadays? 
>
>I support its death.

I have no strong opinion whether it should stay or go, but I
thought one purpose for it was to allow an alternative to root
if /bin/csh was hosed.  I guess you could just boot up into
single-user mode in that case, but I thought the historical
reason for toor were for some things like that.  It was not just
that people didn't know how to change the shell for root...

But I don't mind if it goes, because to me it does not seem useful
until you set a password for it.  And if you're going to customize
the password file to set that password, then you can just as easily
add whatever alternate-root userids that you personally want.  So
having 'toor' in the base system doesn't do much for me.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =      gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA