Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:49:22 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hell.gr> To: Lars Fredriksen <lars@odin-corporation.com> Cc: Cameron Haegle <chaegle@mediaone.net>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Securing the root account Message-ID: <20010620034624.V53980-100000@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3B2F8FF3.F045EA25@odin-corporation.com>
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Lars Fredriksen wrote: > Lars Cameron Haegle wrote: > > > I come from the Windoze side of the playground, where you are able to > > rename the Administrator account name, in order to provide a bit more > > security. Can a similar thing be done with FreeBSD? Cam > > Hi cameron, > > The short answer is that yes you can. The name is really not that > important, it is the userid that is associated with a name that is used > for verifying permissions etc. You can easily create a login name > "cameron" that is assigned userid 0, and that user will have root > privileges. Of course this add absolutely *no* security... It only makes the account that will be the target of the `evil hackers' (TM) be called 'cameron' instead of 'root'. Nothing too excitingly secure about this, I would dare say. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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