[SunHELP] [off topic]Freebsd intel

[Paul Dlug]

Yes it's an account equivalent to the root user but obviously different shell. I can't remember if it's there by default or added when you install the bash package. It's there so you can have a root account with a more friendly shell setup while still having 'root' nice and secure with a shell that is statically linked so that if /usr can't be mounted you can still do maintenance (last I checked bash had more library dependencies). Some shops also use it as the 'operator' account, giving their admins the password for 'toor' but not for 'root'. Of course under 4.x the root shell is tcsh which is more user friendly than the older csh, but I guess the logic is still to keep the root shell simple.

--Paul

> Anybody know freebsd well?  I've been playing arround with BSD 
> for the first time and I found that the  /etc/passwd includes an 
> entry toor with UID 0 fullname is "bourne Again Superuser".  I 
> just installed this box yesterday and the onlything running on 
> it is the latest openssh.  I can't imagine how they got in as 
> there are no vulnerabilities I know of in openssh 2.9.  The same 
> entry also shows up in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd.  Is this a 
> common thing in freebsd? I'm running 4.3-release.