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From: Radek Kozlowski <radek@raadradd.com>
To: Ara Avvali <Ara@Avvali.COM>
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Subject: Re: Change root user name? possible?
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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