From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 20:57:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 115CB37B400 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:57:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NRqs-000Df1-00 for FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 04:57:38 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id E1244117C; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 05:57:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 05:57:36 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I rename root? Message-ID: <20020107045736.GC1368@raggedclown.net> References: <20011229154552.B855@localhost> <20011230103317.A474@localhost> <20011231154733.A832@localhost> <20011231155709.GA8082@rhadamanth> <20020106234436.A837@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020106234436.A837@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:44:36PM +0100, Rogier Steehouder wrote: > On 31-12-2001 15:57 (+0000), Ceri wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:47:33PM +0100, Rogier Steehouder wrote: > > > On 30-12-2001 10:33 (+0100), Rogier Steehouder wrote: > Thank you Ceri! > > I don't use other people's source code if I can help it, but this is > what I was asking for. One of the most important programs in the system > assumes the superuser is called 'root'. That is a good reason to keep > the name (or change it back as I did). > > So there is a good reason to keep the name (besides tradition) after all. > > Now all we need is a list with other usernames some programs require and > which should not be removed. > As they say on IRC, roflmao.. Yup, all someone needs to do is to egrep about 100 million lines of source code for every program that could possibly be run on FBSD for the usernames you don't want on your system. Sounds like a job for bicycle repair-man to me... -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message