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Re: toor account

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Wed Mar 11 02:55:16 1998

To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@MIT.EDU>
Date: 11 Mar 1998 02:54:56 -0500
In-Reply-To: Yoav Yerushalmi's message of Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:51:10 EST

Root has an entry in the users table for obscure moira reasons (which I
believe will be going away soon) (hint: blanche dbadmin).

A list is just as good for preventing anyone from getting that account
name.

kcr

Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU> writes:

> 
> I doubt it makes a difference, but wouldn't it be more appropriate
> to do what was done for root?:
> 
>     PASSWD: root:*:0:101:Wizard A Root,,,,:/mit/root:/bin/csh
>    GRPLIST: uis_user:17940:mit:101:wheel:0:tty:885:kmem:2
> 
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