From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 19 10:33:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gopostal.digi.com (gopostal.digi.com [204.221.110.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B68137B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chaegle@mediaone.net) Received: from minx.dgii.com (minx.digi.com [204.221.110.36]) by gopostal.digi.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id M9G4LYC7; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:33:08 -0500 Received: from hlc02 (hlc02.digi.com) by minx.dgii.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01543; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 15:56:47 -0500 Message-Id: <008f01c0f8e5$fdca32a0$420fbf8f@hlc02> From: "Cameron Haegle" To: Subject: Securing the root account Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:33:44 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_008C_01C0F8BC.14842AC0" X-Priority: 3 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_008C_01C0F8BC.14842AC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I come from the Windoze side of the playground, where you are able to = rename the Administrator account name, in order to provide a bit more = security. Can a similar thing be done with FreeBSD? Cam ------=_NextPart_000_008C_01C0F8BC.14842AC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I come from the Windoze side of the = playground,=20 where you are able to rename the Administrator account name, in order to = provide=20 a bit more security.

Can a similar thing be done with=20 FreeBSD?

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