[afnog] Installing MRTG via /usr/ports on a FReeBSD 5.3 releasebox fails

[Randy Bush]

> You can, but there are reasons not to do so. If you need to reboot your
> system into single-user mode for repairs, then the /usr filesystem won't be
> available until you mount it, and that means you won't have access to your
> shell. Having said that, I *think* /sbin/init lets you choose a different
> shell when going into single user mode, but I'm not sure.

it does, defaulting to /bin/sh

> ISTR that older FreeBSD systems had two uid=0 accounts, 'root' and 'toor',
> for this reason. However I don't see 'toor' these days.

un-needed and a security hole

randy