On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:49:06AM +0930, Tim Aslat wrote:
In the immortal words of Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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
* Ara Avvali [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0804 00:04]:
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. Although windows
security blows but they have this feature renaming administrator user
account name
uid 0 is special,
Ara Avvali writes:
Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root account
to something else for extra security?
Thank you
It would not provide you any more security.
The key thing is the UID which for root has to be '0'
You can create any number of accounts with UID of 0
On 2004-08-25 18:50, Ara Avvali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root account
to something else for extra security?
No. At least, not as far as I know.
Probably because it wouldn't provide any extra security unless you
tinkered with a
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0400, Ara Avvali wrote:
Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root account
to something else for extra security?
Thank you
I don't think it would increase your security, because any person that
has access to your machine could
Hello Ara,
Thursday, August 26, 2004, 12:50:46 AM, you wrote:
AA Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root account
AA to something else for extra security?
AA Thank you
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Subject: Re: Change root user name? possible?
On 2004-08-25 18:50, Ara Avvali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root
account
to something else for extra security?
No. At least, not as far as I know.
Probably
There are far better and less problematic ways to increase the security
of a system. If you haven't already look at man 7 security.
Disable SSH root login and turn off telnet to remove the ability of a
remote root login at the very least.
Jason
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On Aug 25, 2004, at 6:50 PM, Ara Avvali wrote:
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
In the immortal words of Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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
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.
--
I was so much older then, I'm younger than
Damn right. Never thought of that
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From: Lewis Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 25, 2004 7:25 PM
To: Ara Avvali
Cc: 'Giorgos Keramidas'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Change root user name? possible?
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:03:10PM -0400, Ara Avvali
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On 2004-08-25 19:03, Ara Avvali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2004-08-25 18:50, Ara Avvali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to
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