Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:30:56 -0400 From: "Ara Avvali" <Ara@Avvali.COM> To: "'Lewis Thompson'" <lewiz@fajita.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Change root user name? possible? Message-ID: <20040825233100.B725A43D5A@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040825232459.GA7971@fajita.org>
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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. -- 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 |-
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