Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:46:28 -0500 From: Lars Fredriksen <lars@odin-corporation.com> To: Cameron Haegle <chaegle@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Securing the root account Message-ID: <3B2F8FF3.F045EA25@odin-corporation.com> References: <008f01c0f8e5$fdca32a0$420fbf8f@hlc02>
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--------------D7507224FA6375AD27B8886B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi cameron, The short answer is that yes you can. The name is really not that important, it is the userid that is associated with a name that is used for verifying permissions etc. You can easily create a login name "cameron" that is assigned userid 0, and that user will have root privileges. Lars Cameron Haegle wrote: > 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 --------------D7507224FA6375AD27B8886B Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi cameron, <p>The short answer is that yes you can. The name is really not that important, it is the userid that is associated with a name that is used for verifying permissions etc. You can easily create a login name "cameron" that is assigned userid 0, and that user will have root privileges. <p>Lars <br>Cameron Haegle wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>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.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Can a similar thing be done with FreeBSD?</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Cam</font></font></blockquote> </body> </html> --------------D7507224FA6375AD27B8886B-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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