[1613] in NetBSD-Development
Re: toor account
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Sat Mar 14 07:12:14 1998
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, moira-admin@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@MIT.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 1998 07:10:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jonathon Weiss's message of Sat, 14 Mar 1998 08:14:52 GMT
Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
> well, that will teach me to read all my mail then act on it. As was
> pointed out the mailing lost toor exists and is sufficient. For those
> wondering, I believe the reason root needs a passwd entry is to
> reserve the uid too. I deleted toor, and kdestroyed my root tix.
root also needs a user entry so that it can be on dbadmin. At least at one
point (I believe this will cease to be true RSN, the DCM's "authenticated"
to the database as root, so root needed to be very privileged. There's a
somewhat entertaining story that jis tells about someone who removed root
from dbadmin because he didn't know why it was there.
kcr
