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Date:      Fri, 30 May 2008 17:03:06 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, gilles.ganault@free.fr
Subject:   Re: Renaming "root" to "homer"?
Message-ID:  <20080530170151.D2560@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200805301453.m4UErWlE011463@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200805301453.m4UErWlE011463@lurza.secnetix.de>

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> Peope have already pointed out that it is a bad idea to
> allow remote root logins, so I won't repeat that.  :-)

i like bad ideas :) except the worst idea - dumb generalization.

> But to answer your question:  Renaming the "root" account
> will probably break quite a log of things, for example

make 2 roots, root and homer in /etc/master.passwd

just remember to type
passwd root

or

passwd homer.



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