From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 15 10:18:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0545137B66C for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9FHI9P03015; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:18:09 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Charles Thompson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why should root access have such a common user name Message-ID: <20001015101809.C272@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001015093533.80353.qmail@web9207.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001015093533.80353.qmail@web9207.mail.yahoo.com>; from c_gulll@yahoo.com on Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:35:33AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Charles Thompson [001015 02:48] wrote: > This may soud somewhat asinine, but I cant help but > ask. Is it possible to have the system not use root as > a user for root access. To me if knowing the user name > is half the battle. There's an interesting story that was posted to a.s.r where some PHB demanded the root password. The admin was a bit worried until he realized he could just make root's uid == nobody and keep toor around for himself. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message