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Message-ID: <CC1CB578-3AAF-11D9-9AEB-000D93C0F38C@teknovis.com>
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.
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