Death to toor
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Sun Jun 12 04:08:45 GMT 2005
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 09:02:25PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:38:43PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote:
> > As to the status of toor, I say remove it. Anyone that wants to keep it
> > can skip that mergemaster step.
>
> BSD has historically had a toor account. A person who installs
> FreeBSD from a CD created after toor removal will not have a
> toor account. How does mergemaster restore a historical
> toor account?
>
> This is a really dumb bikeshed. toor is 1 uid out of
> a rather large number of possible uid's.
Actually toor does not even consume a uid. (since 0 is already used by
root)
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