Subject: RE:Root, toor accounts. To: None <> From: newhouse at
rockhead dot com <> List: netbsd-users Date: 03/12/1999 17:34:21
writes:  >?When I installed my system, there were two UID 0
accounts: root and toor. >?Is there a reason to include both?
I've left them both in there, since >?that's the way that the
system sets itself up; I thought that there might >?be some
reason for having both.  But, the daily script, of course,
always >?checks (and reports on) duplicate accounts---including
the ``standard'' >?root/toor duality. >?So, would it harm
anything if I remove one them? >?What if I remove toor and
change the other to something OTHER than >?``root'' (still UID
0)?  I gather that the UID is what is really >?important, so it
shouldn't matter---but by that argument, having both root >?&
toor makes absolutely no sense, either. >?(My thought with
renaming the UID 0 account was to then create an >?unprivileged
``root'', as a kind of amusement should anyone try to login >?as
root on my system.  It wouldn't be