Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:53:34 +0000 From: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> To: Wouter <wouter@spierenburg.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Renaming root account Message-ID: <e572718c0503030553733a8f7b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <029801c51fd2$783a7f60$0100000a@wouter> References: <4226C4DF.3050806@winbot.co.uk> <029801c51fd2$783a7f60$0100000a@wouter>
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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? Thenk you very much > > Wouter -- Pietro "Piter" Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> <piter@beansidhe.ch> Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal <www.beansidhe.ch> Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"
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