Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:29:28 +0100 | From | Torsten Landschoff <> | Subject | Re: Username "root" unique? |
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On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 05:31:30PM -0500, Adam D. Bradley wrote:
> Well, I know one person (at least) on this list who has "root" as a normal > user account (UID != 0), so I presume he uses something else for his > superuser account. He said he did this because "root@somedomain" > addresses are ignored by some address harvesting software, and also to > screw with the minds of anyone trying to crack his system ;-) > > Most sane utilities that care should be checking some variation on > "getuid()==0" or "geteuid()==0", and the kernel couldn't care less about > names, only UID's (and more recently, capabilities).
A really silly idea: What about patching the kernel to use uid 3141 for the priviledged user (or 42 perhaps ;-)
Just a though :-) Torsten [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |