From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 19 19:16:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [64.211.219.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA64937B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA21356; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:16:48 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAk0aaPP; Tue Jun 19 19:16:36 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA24157; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:18:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200106200218.TAA24157@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Securing the root account To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 02:18:46 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chaegle@mediaone.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ] > 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