Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 02:18:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: chaegle@mediaone.net Subject: Re: Securing the root account Message-ID: <200106200218.TAA24157@usr05.primenet.com>
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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? I agree that this is a bad idea from a security standpoint. However, it could be a useful thing to do, in terms of being able to "rebadge" FreeBSD for, say, and embedded system; that really begs the question of "open box" vs. "closed box", and how useful a rebadging process would be, if you were to permit root access. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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