Renaming "root" to "homer"?

[Christian Zachariasen]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Wojciech Puchar <
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> 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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How would that help with his problem?

Christian Zachariasen