Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:55:08 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Ara Avvali <Ara@Avvali.COM> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change root user name? possible? Message-ID: <20040825225508.GC2226@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040825225051.7730643D58@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20040825213312.79E8416A4D9@hub.freebsd.org> <20040825225051.7730643D58@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On 2004-08-25 18:50, Ara Avvali <Ara@Avvali.COM> wrote: > Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root account > to something else for extra security? No. At least, not as far as I know. Probably because it wouldn't provide any extra security unless you tinkered with a hell of a lot of settings; both in the default, base system and any ports/packages you installed afterwards.
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