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Subject: Re: Renaming "root" to "homer"?
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> Peope have already pointed out that it is a bad idea to
> allow remote root logins, so I won't repeat that.  :-)

i like bad ideas :) except the worst idea - dumb generalization.

> But to answer your question:  Renaming the "root" account
> will probably break quite a log of things, for example

make 2 roots, root and homer in /etc/master.passwd

just remember to type
passwd root

or

passwd homer.