Re: Renaming root account

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: In my opinion, absolutely none at all. People should never change the default shell of root from /bin/csh and toor is just a hack to please those who are too bored to type: % exec bash I'm not sure what's worse: using anything other than /bin/sh

Re: Renaming root account

2005-03-03 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:22:05 +0100, Wouter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Renaming root is generally a bad idea, what you could do, however, is set a password on(thus enabling) the toor account and set root's shell to /sbin/nologin Sorry for interfering with this discussion. I would like to know

Re: Renaming root account

2005-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-03 13:53, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:22:05 +0100, Wouter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Renaming root is generally a bad idea, what you could do, however, is set a password on(thus enabling) the toor account and set root's shell to /sbin/nologin Sorry