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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
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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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