Re: changing root account name

From: Philipp Schulte (pschulte@uni-duisburg.de)
Date: 10/31/01 

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:35:23 +0100
From: Philipp Schulte <pschulte@uni-duisburg.de>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: changing root account name
Message-ID: <20011031173523.A15725@nepomuk.max.uni-duisburg.de>

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:12:34AM -0500, Kurt Yoder wrote:

> Would there be any benefit in changing the account name of "root"? For
> instance, I could change the uid 0 account to have the name "foobar".
> Then, if someone were trying to break into the root account, they would
> have an additional step; instead of logging in as root, they'd first
> have to find out what the uid 0 account was called.

less /etc/passwd | grep "0:0"

Phil

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