Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:59:26 +0200 From: Radek Kozlowski <radek@raadradd.com> To: Ara Avvali <Ara@Avvali.COM> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change root user name? possible? Message-ID: <20040825225926.GA25551@werd> In-Reply-To: <20040825225051.7730643D58@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20040825213312.79E8416A4D9@hub.freebsd.org> <20040825225051.7730643D58@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0400, Ara Avvali wrote: > Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root account > to something else for extra security? > Thank you I don't think it would increase your security, because any person that has access to your machine could perform `pw usershow -u 0` and get the name of superuser's account. You'd be much better off setting PermitRootLogin to No in sshd_config and using only su everytime you need root privileges. -Radek
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