On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Lars Fredriksen wrote:
> 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
>
> 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.
Of course this add absolutely *no* security... It only makes the
account that will be the target of the `evil hackers' (TM) be called
'cameron' instead of 'root'. Nothing too excitingly secure about
this, I would dare say.
-giorgos
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