Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:40:41 +0100 | From | jens@pinguin ... | Subject | Re: Username "root" unique? |
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On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 12:20:54PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>|>> 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.
Excuse me? Are you saying that you are not obscuring your passwords? ;-)
In all other respects, though, I agree. Especially in respect to encryption algorithms.
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