Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:02:39 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>, Wouter <wouter@spierenburg.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming root account Message-ID: <20050303140239.GB17484@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <e572718c0503030553733a8f7b@mail.gmail.com> References: <4226C4DF.3050806@winbot.co.uk> <029801c51fd2$783a7f60$0100000a@wouter> <e572718c0503030553733a8f7b@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2005-03-03 13:53, Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:22:05 +0100, Wouter <wouter@spierenburg.net> wrote: >> Renaming root is generally a bad idea, what you could do, however, is set a >> password on(thus enabling) the "toor" account and set root's shell to >> /sbin/nologin > > Sorry for interfering with this discussion. > > I would like to know what are the advantages of using "toor" against > using the normal root account. They have the same UID, then they > actually are the same account, aren't they? In my opinion, absolutely none at all. People should never change the default shell of root from /bin/csh and "toor" is just a hack to please those who are too bored to type: % exec bash
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