yes, all this helps... is disabling root a common practice out in the real
world? it just strikes me as something you wouldent want to do...
also, if root is deleted or disabled, dont you loose part of the
functionality of su ... the part where you just type su - and you are now
root, provideing you know the pw?
and from my experience with ubuntu (loaded a vm of it and changed the
passwords around) there is a root account, just not able to log in
graphicly.
thanks for all the input, and im not trying to start a flameing war with the
questions... just the enlightend disscusion to either do it, or pose an
argument of why not too.
jason
From: Phillip Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[email protected]>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] to delete root, or not too?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:40:08 -0500
jason watts wrote:
hello
i spent today downloading installing and updateing (851 updates) fedora
core 5. as part of my senior project.
after i was done, i was told to add this account, and give him root
privlages. so, i added the user to the group 'root'. then i was
instructed to google and find out how to delete the root account since i
said i dont think its posible.
so, my questions are,
1) how do i delete root? can i do it threw the normal way you delete any
user account?
I was just able to do the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] useradd -u 0 -o falseroot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] logout
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] su - falseroot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] userdel root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] logout
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] su - falseroot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] cd /root/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] touch foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] su - root
su: user root does not exist
So I created a new user which is equivelant to root, deleted root, was able
to write
a file in a dir which requires root permissions, but showed that root no
longer
exists.
Hope this helps.
TTYL,
Phil
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