From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 19 10:46:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from munin.odin-corporation.com (munin.odin-corporation.com [216.233.173.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86EC137B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:46:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lars@odin-corporation.com) Received: from odin-corporation.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by munin.odin-corporation.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5JHkTT99533; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:46:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lars@odin-corporation.com) Message-ID: <3B2F8FF3.F045EA25@odin-corporation.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:46:28 -0500 From: Lars Fredriksen Organization: Odin Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cameron Haegle Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Securing the root account References: <008f01c0f8e5$fdca32a0$420fbf8f@hlc02> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------D7507224FA6375AD27B8886B" 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 --------------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 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
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