:~>A few things have evaded me while grasping the major concepts of Linux
:~>security (must be several years of miseducation under NT :-)
:~>1) it it possible to change the username of root? Seems to be more safe when
:~>under a dictionary attack
No idea. I do not think it would bring any aditional security:
root-account is an account which has the UID 1, and one can
easily find such account by dumping the passwd.
:~>2) I've implemented NIS for "domain-authentication". Would it be possible to
:~>implement something like a "domain-root" account? Something similar to the
:~>NT "Domain Administrator" which is automatically Administrator (super-user)
:~>on a member of an NT-domain.
Sure, if you do not mind the security implications. From /var/yp/Makefile:
# We do not put password entries with lower UIDs (the root and system #
entries) in the NIS password database, for security. MINUID is the #
lowest uid that will be included in the password maps. # MINGID is the
lowest gid that will be included in the group maps.:
MINUID=100:
MINGID=80
Set it to 1, and voila! However, I do not recomend this at all.
hope this helps
Denis
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