does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

[Jason]

The handbook has documentation on this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT

-jgh

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 05:05:35PM +0000, Matthew Seaman thus spake:
>Lars Eighner wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>>> If there's nothing in the second field, then you have a problem, as that
>>> means the account has a NULL password (ie.  just hit return when prompted
>>> for a password --
>
>> I've been wrong before, but I think you do not get a password prompt at
>> all,
>> at least not on login.  You enter the login: name and you are off to motd
>> and a command prompt.
>
>It depends on what application you're using to authenticate yourself.
>Login on the console doesn't ask for a password.  sshd(8) does (IIRC).
>I can't remember what su(1) does.  ftpd(8) always asks for a password.
>xdm(1) and that ilk have fields for username and password in one panel,
>and generally you just ignore the password field.  That's for access to
>a non-root account: as I said, root or other super-user accounts such as
>toor may not permit root login at all, or may not permit login without a
>password.
>
>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew
>
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