From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 15 12: 1:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gray.westgate.gr (gray.westgate.gr [212.205.119.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7A6937B503 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 12:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 48474 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Oct 2000 19:01:28 -0000 Message-ID: <20001015190128.48473.qmail@gray.westgate.gr> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 22:01:28 +0300 To: Charles Thompson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: why should root access have such a common user name References: <20001015093533.80353.qmail@web9207.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001015093533.80353.qmail@web9207.mail.yahoo.com>; from c_gulll@yahoo.com on Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:35:33AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:35:33AM -0700, Charles Thompson wrote: > This may soud somewhat asinine, but I cant help but > ask. Is it possible to have the system not use root as > a user for root access. To me if knowing the user name > is half the battle. Unless you are prepared to heavily edit /etc/mtree/* files, you should not change the name of the `root' account. A lot of these files include lines like: # cd /etc # find ./mtree -type f | xargs grep root | head -1 ./mtree/BSD.include.dist:/set type=dir uname=root gname=wheel mode=0755 and that is the *first* line only that matches :-))) -- Giorgos Keramidas, For my public pgp2 key: finger -l keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message