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From: dillon@best.com (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: toor user account ???
Date: 12 Oct 1996 17:28:08 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <53pd2o$57l@flash.noc.best.net>
References: <52k448$sjj@herald.concentric.net> <52pbg7$mg@anorak.coverform.lan> <32592474.592990BB@Newbridge.com> <53gf82$kq@anorak.coverform.lan>
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:In article <53gf82$kq@anorak.coverform.lan>,
:Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote:
:>In article <32592474.592990BB@newbridge.com>,
:> BL <binhlam@Newbridge.com> writes:
:>> Curious, what is this account used for?
:>>
:>
:>It's a user-friendly root account. One that uses "bash" instead of "csh".
:>
:>Curious, how come you posted this as a followup to a programming question ?
:>
:>--
:>Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
:> <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
:>Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
I've always used it as a backup-csh account myself, so I could
install a (shared library) tcsh as the main root shell.
-Matt
--
Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
<dillon@best.net>
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