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SubjectRe: Username "root" unique?
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"Zow" Terry Brugger <zow@torii.bruggerink.com> writes:

|> > There's no reason you can't keep "root" and add an account named "bofh"
|> > that also has uid 0 and gid 0. Those silly berkeley people often do this
|>
|> Ah yes, but the advantage of changing the name of root is that it makes it
|> just a little more difficult to crack. That way, people need to figure out not
|> only the password, but the account name as well. This is a popular technique
|> in NT administration: changing the name of the Administrator account. After
|> all, it needs all the help it can get. . .

Security by obscurity is no security at all.

--
Andreas Schwab "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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