Change root user name? possible?

[Tim Aslat]

In the immortal words of Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com>...
> Whether this gains you much security is another question entirely, and
> you risk breaking single-user mode and various low-level pieces of 
> software which expect root to exist, but it can be done.

I know it can be done, a couple of typos in vipw and I lost the root
account, very disconcerting, but single use mode still seemed to work,
probably because the toor account was still intact even though it has a
password of *.



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Tim Aslat <tim at spyderweb.com.au>
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