If you are on the box, having changed the name of the Admin is useless. Naming doesn't safe you from a lot...a simple registry pull in Windows will get you all the hashed passwords.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jeremy Davis > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > Are you able to change root's name in nix? Why not if the > answer is no? > (Things would break right? UID 0?) Knowing the account name > is two-thirds of the battle. > In windows it's fairly easy to change the admin name. > Not a professional here just curious... > J > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:13:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:12:31 EST, "Crotty, Edward" said: > > > I'm not a Win based guy (troll?) - Un*x here - and even I > was offended by #1. > > > > > > There is such a thing as "runas" for Windows. > > > > Yes, but is *the main design* of the system "run as a > mortal, and use > > the 'runas' for those things that need more"? > > > > Or is the *main design* "We'll just elect the first user as > > Administrator, and include 'runas' in case somebody wants > to Do It The Right Way"? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
