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Subject: Re: Renaming root account
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:22:05 +0100, Wouter <wouter@spierenburg.net> wrote:
> Renaming root is generally a bad idea, what you could do, however, is set a
> password on(thus enabling) the "toor" account and set root's shell to
> /sbin/nologin

Sorry for interfering with this discussion.

I would like to know what are the advantages of using "toor" against
using the normal root account.
They have the same UID, then they actually are the same account, aren't they?

Thenk you very much

> 
> Wouter

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