own OS-Name

[OutBackDingo]

Take this advice very seriously from someone who has already 
done this effectively, you wount be able to accomplish this 
yourself, it will take months, and more then just a few good c  
coders to accomplish. its really a bad idea for what little you 
gain versus the amount of work involved.

On Thursday 31 July 2008 18:55:15 Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Markus Mueller <casparos at yahoo.de>:
> > I will create my own *BSD OS based on FreeBSD.
> > How can I change the Name of this OS ?
> > I mean, that in Logfiles, for example, of servers, which I 
connect by
> > sufing in the web and in application which locate the OS 
instead
> > "FREEBSD" an another OS-Name "MyOS-Name" will be 
displayed.
>
> In addition to Giorgos' answer, there are tools, such as 
nmap, that
> identify the OS by it's behaviour and not by any string that 
appears
> anywhere.  In order to convince those tools that your OS is 
not
> FreeBSD, you'll have to alter the IP code to cause it to 
behave in
> a manner that is unique.  Good luck doing _that_ without 
breaking
> things.