Death to toor

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 16 00:59:30 GMT 2005


On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:55:52PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> Also, note that according to the FAQ, toor exists for bash support, 
> not /bin/sh and apparently used to be installed by the bash port as part of 
> its install.  CVS says it has been around since 386BSD though, so I'm 
> guessing that it wasn't ever a feature of the bash port per se, but maybe 
> bash's own install scripts.

The FAQ is wrong.

'toor' is in the earliest CSRG master.passwd in Kirk McKusick's SCCS
archive (5.1 bostic 25-Jan-88).  Its original form was:
    root::0:10:Charlie &:/:/bin/csh
    toor::0:10:Bourne-again Superuser:/:

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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