[OT] sudo, root, toor and the descriptions

Hi,
I just noted that the toor account is described as

Code:
Bourne-again Superuser

As far as I know this account is a copy of the root one used for multi-administration. What does this description means? Moreover, I noted that the root account is described as

Code:
Charlie &

and that is quite nice too.....

Finally a technical question: is the adoption of toor still in use or has it been substituted by the adoption of sudo?
 
What I know that toor is / was used to fix broked root account from single-user mode.

But toor account doens't have password on default. You need to set-up password for toor account.
 
User toor exists so you can leave the root account completely unmodified and have a superuser account customized exactly as you like. "Bourne-again" is a pun on the fact that toor has a Bourne shell /bin/sh as the default shell (root has /bin/csh as the default shell).
 
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