Change root user name? possible?

Lewis Thompson lewiz at fajita.org
Wed Aug 25 16:25:27 PDT 2004


On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:03:10PM -0400, Ara Avvali wrote:
> What I mean if someone wants to hack to machine or even get physical access
> half of the job is done by knowing the root user name.

But they could just look in the passwd file...

-lewiz.

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