From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 15:51:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2909437B416 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 15:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.core.com (shell.core.com [169.207.1.89]) by out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.12.3/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id g43MpkTN010925 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 17:51:46 -0500 Received: from localhost (raiden@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id g43Mpkf08841 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 17:51:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 17:51:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Steven Lake X-X-Sender: raiden@shell.core.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Demote Root, Promote UserX? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I saw something similar to this mentioned with Windows 2000 that you could do to deture hackers, and I was curious if it's possible with Fbsd? Can you rename the Root account or possibly demote it, then promote a lower user account, say something along the lines of "Admin1" or something to that respect, to the roll of root and not screw anything up? Or if that's not possible, can you add another user with the same powers as root while disabling root itself? I'm just jabbing for ideas to stop a hacker who might be hacking in looking for the root account to take control of a machine by allowing them to hit an account with zero privaledges and go absolutely nowhere. Of course we plan to be monitoring and catch them if they do, but I want to slow them down or stop them if possible using this. Any comments are welcome. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message