Change root user name? possible?

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Wed Aug 25 15:56:48 PDT 2004


On 2004-08-25 18:50, Ara Avvali <Ara at Avvali.COM> wrote:
> Sorry if this might sound crazy, but is there anyway to rename root account
> to something else for extra security?

No.  At least, not as far as I know.

Probably because it wouldn't provide any extra security unless you
tinkered with a hell of a lot of settings; both in the default, base
system and any ports/packages you installed afterwards.



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