From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 23:25:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869A416A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from infidel.fajita.org (oldhallfarm.demon.co.uk [80.176.128.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041FF43D3F for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:25:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lewiz@fajita.org) Received: from majic.fajita.org (majic.fajita.org [192.168.0.4]) by infidel.fajita.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7PNP0K6008269; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:25:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz@fajita.org) Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by majic.fajita.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i7PNP0dd008268; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:25:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:24:59 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson To: Ara Avvali Message-ID: <20040825232459.GA7971@fajita.org> References: <20040825225508.GC2226@gothmog.gr> <20040825230315.535D643D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wac7ysb48OaltWcw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040825230315.535D643D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.lewiz.org/~lewiz/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lewiz@fajita.org cc: 'Giorgos Keramidas' cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change root user name? possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:25:27 -0000 --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:03:10PM -0400, Ara Avvali wrote: > What I mean if someone wants to hack to machine or even get physical acce= ss > half of the job is done by knowing the root user name. But they could just look in the passwd file... -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBLR/LItq0KFQv7T8RApnzAJ9OwjEd9KbfWFGt0WgV3qrulrsymgCfa9/q siDSiT886lN5+8S+eYTHtwE= =VwHZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--