Death to toor

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Fri Jun 10 18:20:11 GMT 2005


On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, John Baldwin wrote:

Hi,

> 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.

I often use toor with a different passphrase that only I know when
installing machines and it safed me a boot more often than I had wished.

As long as it doesn't harm I wouldn't remove it.

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