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SubjectRe: Username "root" unique?
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
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