From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 4:49:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl (kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl [130.89.203.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC8237B416 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 04:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 560B41F91; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:49:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:49:07 +0100 From: Rogier Steehouder To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I rename root? Message-ID: <20020107134907.B835@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: Rogier Steehouder , Cliff Sarginson , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011229154552.B855@localhost> <20011230103317.A474@localhost> <20011231154733.A832@localhost> <20011231155709.GA8082@rhadamanth> <20020106234436.A837@localhost> <20020107045736.GC1368@raggedclown.net> <4mpu4m4rq8.u4m@localhost.localdomain> <20020107064602.GA3480@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020107064602.GA3480@raggedclown.net>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:46:03AM +0100 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 07-01-2002 07:46 (+0100), Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:09:35PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > Cliff Sarginson writes: > > > > > As they say on IRC, roflmao.. I don't use IRC. > > > 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... I should think most programmers know their code and know which usernames are needed. Maybe it is quite a job for the base system, but what about the ports collection. Or am I still too naieve. > > Sounds like a job for someone with time to post worse-than-useless > > ridicule of newbies. After more than 16 months of using FreeBSD from 4.0 to 4.4, I don't consider myself a newbie. > Someone who takes it on themselves to rename root, until told otherwise > is not a newbie. > He was given lots of reasons why not. I have studied applied physics, I believe very little without proof. > He did not accept any of them until someone went to the effort of > finding a piece of source code that showed why not. > I.e. *soneone else* went to the effort, not him, someone else. > Now he wants a justification from *someone else* on what user-ids > he leaves on his system. It's not my fault I cannot read C :-) (At least not without some difficulty, and not how some people write their code) > It was not ridicule, it was a statement of what would be involved in > such an exercise. If he distrusts the default users that come with the > base system so much then *he* can do the egrep, he can provide the > information for others. I know it would be quite an exercise. That's why I asked first: maybe someone already tried. The quickest and easiest way to learn something new is to ask someone who already knows. I really expected one of the programmers to respond along the lines of "Don't do that, it will break my program", but until Ceri noone could actually name a program. I have seen the error of my way. With kind regards, Rogier Steehouder -- ___ _ -O_\ // | / Rogier Steehouder //\ / \ r.j.s@gmx.net // \ <---------------------- 25m ----------------------> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message