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From: andfarm at teknovis.com (Andrew Farmer) Subject: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox On 19 Nov 2004, at 18:40, Jeremy Davis wrote: > Are you able to change root's name in nix? Sure. There's no reason why not. > Why not if the answer is no? > (Things would break right? UID 0?) Knowing the account name is > two-thirds of the battle. A much better system is to have root's password unset (i.e. no direct login allowed) and use sudo instead. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20041119/51d49eac/PGP.bin