From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 15 5:30:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0275137B671 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 05:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 13kmvr-0000LY-02; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 14:30:27 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9FBmd870919 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:48:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: why should root access have such a common user name Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 11:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <8sc5in$24qu$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20001015093533.80353.qmail@web9207.mail.yahoo.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charles Thompson wrote: > This may soud somewhat asinine, but I cant help but > ask. Is it possible to have the system not use root as > a user for root access. Absolutely. vipw(8), and rename "root" to something else. There are zillions of scripts and Makefiles that are hardcoded to assume that root is a valid name for the superuser, and that you will consequently need to fix, but "root" is merely a convention. Of course, if you need to ask, you'll probably hang yourself with it. > To me if knowing the user name is half the battle. Yeah. Whatever. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message