Death to toor

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:55:52PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Also, note that according to the FAQ, toor exists for bash support [...]
> The FAQ is wrong.
>
> 'toor' is in the earliest CSRG master.passwd in Kirk McKusick's SCCS
> archive (5.1 bostic 25-Jan-88).  Its original form was:
>     root::0:10:Charlie &:/:/bin/csh
>     toor::0:10:Bourne-again Superuser:/:

"bourne-again" is precisely what the "ba" in "bash" means.

As far as I can determine, bash dates back to at least 1987, so it is
not at all unlikely that it was in widespread use at the CSRG in 1988.

DES
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