From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 23: 1:15 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 6DC5237B417 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:01:06 -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 16NTmL-000Iao-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 07:01:05 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 9F3ED1171; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:01:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:01:04 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I rename root? Message-ID: <20020107070104.GA3721@raggedclown.net> References: <200112302041.NAA21129@cepheus.azstarnet.com> <20020107170502.M34939-100000@marbles.lost.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020107170502.M34939-100000@marbles.lost.net.au> 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 Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:12:10PM +1030, tim wrote: > 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 Wrong person :) Mmm. I can guess what "root" mean in Australia .. :) Reminds me of a person I worked with who set his root password to "!Angela", Angela being the name of his girlfriend. However many people prononuce "!" as "bang", but he not being a native English speaker did not quite understand the merriment this password caused.. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message