Brian wrote:

>
> On Monday, November 1, 2004, at 05:57 PM, Colin Raven wrote:
>
>> Andy Ruhl wrote:
>>
>>> I think probably a lot of us have hosed up the root account before. 
>>> It happens. Part of being a unix admin. Recovering from it is what 
>>> seperates you from the rest. Unfortunately on the Qube this often 
>>> means hacking the disk from another machine if you can't get it to 
>>> boot into single user via a serial console.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> <sob>
>> /me looks at a long night ahead.
>> Isn't this great though?? I mean...all the practice....excellent for 
>> documentation writing purposes.
>> /me hits self on the head with a large book
>>
>>
>
> The toor account can be handy.  It was not enabled by default on my 
> 1.6.1 netboot'd setup; you activate it by just giving it a passwd.
>
> It's a root account (as you have gathered from other posts) that 
> doesn't use the standard shell so that  if something happens to the 
> filesystem and shell referenced in your root accounts startup (like, 
> it doesn't exist as typed for any reason :) you'll have something you 
> can still get into.
>
> I just checked on my system and the provision that keeps people from 
> being able to ssh into root also applies to toor.  So it's about as 
> secure to have it enabled, as it is to have it disabled, as far as I 
> can see.
>
> HTH.
>
> I know about the toor account as I did something similar in the first 
> 3 days I had my Qube up :), which is a time frame still measured in 
> months...
>
> Brian
>
How good to know others have done the same thing!!! Thanks Brian for that!!!
Yet one more solid learning experience! I never thought of it as I said 
in my previous post...not for one minute
Oh well
pkg_install just finished installing :)
bash next
woo hoo
-Colin