user toor ???
Jim Mock
mij at soupnazi.org
Thu Apr 17 13:16:32 PDT 2003
On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 12:45 PM, Brent Bailey wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what function does the user "toor" that is put in
> by default by FBSD install do?
It's a backup root user.
> im told its a security risk ...but unsure what it does ??
I'm told a lot of things too, but that doesn't mean I believe all of
them :-) If you're excessively paranoid, you can remove the user, but
if someone can get into your machine and crack root/toor's password,
you've got bigger issues to worry about.
- jim
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