In message <200004100539.OAA03451@ibr1.irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>, Henry Nelson wri
tes:
>I keep seeing this message in the "daily insecurity output":
>	Login toor is off but still has a valid shell (/bin/sh)
>
>What is the account "toor" used for?  Do I need it?  Should I just delete
>it (but then I ask, why is it in the distribution passwd file to begin with?),
>or should I change /bin/sh to something fictitious, or should I issue a new
>password for "toor?"  TIA.

Toor is a spare root account which uses /bin/sh instead of csh.  It's not
necessarily useful, and many people just nuke it.  :)

-s