Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Username "root" unique? | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 16 Nov 1998 12:20:54 +0100 |
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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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