From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 22:42:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marbles.lost.net.au (marbles.lost.net.au [203.56.209.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA8D37B405 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by marbles.lost.net.au (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g076gAw35317; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:12:12 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from tim@lost.net.au) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:12:10 +1030 (CST) From: tim To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I rename root? In-Reply-To: <200112302041.NAA21129@cepheus.azstarnet.com> Message-ID: <20020107170502.M34939-100000@marbles.lost.net.au> 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 On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Jeffrey wrote: J> I am assuming you are doing this to obtain some security by J> obscurity, right? Most people probably agree that this gains nothing for security. But there are other (political) reasons to rename root. In Australia, for example, "root" has a meaning which might surprise some overseas. I was once asked if it were possible, and I said it would probably cause problems, so it was left at that. However - Cliff, I at least would be interested in the results of your experiment, to know which applications it breaks :-) Because in a perfect world, the name of the admin account shouldn't mean anything. -- tim@lost.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message