Re: Renaming "root" to "homer"?

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Wojciech Puchar <
wojtek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peope have already pointed out that it is a bad idea to
allow remote root logins, so I won't repeat that. :-)


i like bad ideas :) except the worst idea - dumb generalization.

But to answer your question: Renaming the "root" account
will probably break quite a log of things, for example


make 2 roots, root and homer in /etc/master.passwd

just remember to type
passwd root

or

passwd homer.

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How would that help with his problem?

Christian Zachariasen
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