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Subject: RE: Change root user name? possible?
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Damn right. Never thought of that

-----Original Message-----
From: Lewis Thompson [mailto:lewiz@fajita.org] 
Sent: August 25, 2004 7:25 PM
To: Ara Avvali
Cc: 'Giorgos Keramidas'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Change root user name? possible?

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
access
> half of the job is done by knowing the root user name.

But they could just look in the passwd file...

-lewiz.

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I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.  --Bob Dylan, 1964.
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