Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:49:06 +0930 From: Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change root user name? possible? Message-ID: <20040826084906.5ef2b1ad@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> In-Reply-To: <62E23207-F6EB-11D8-8247-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <20040825225051.7730643D58@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <62E23207-F6EB-11D8-8247-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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In the immortal words of Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>... > Whether this gains you much security is another question entirely, and > you risk breaking single-user mode and various low-level pieces of > software which expect root to exist, but it can be done. I know it can be done, a couple of typos in vipw and I lost the root account, very disconcerting, but single use mode still seemed to work, probably because the toor account was still intact even though it has a password of *. -- Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au Phone: +61 0401088479
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