Change root user name? possible?

[Radek Kozlowski]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0400, Ara Avvali wrote:
> Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root account
> to something else for extra security?
> Thank you

I don't think it would increase your security, because any person that
has access to your machine could perform `pw usershow -u 0` and get the
name of superuser's account. You'd be much better off setting
PermitRootLogin to No in sshd_config and using only su everytime you
need root privileges.

-Radek