Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root account
to something else for extra security?
Why, yes, you can rename root. Use vipw. If you setup sudo properly, you can even run a system without any valid uid=0 users existing at all, although it would be safer to simply give root a password of "*", which disables password-based logins but leaves the account present.
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.
[MacOS X ships without root enabled, for example.]
-- -Chuck
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