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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:51:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jeff Gentry <freebsd@hexdump.org>
To:        Cameron Haegle <chaegle@mediaone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Securing the root account
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106192150490.50623-100000@hellfire.hexdump.org>
In-Reply-To: <008f01c0f8e5$fdca32a0$420fbf8f@hlc02>

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> 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.

How is that anything other than security through obscurity?

That is fairly retarded and will not really provide anything except
for a *false* sense of security.

-Jeff


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