Uttered Hakan Kara <Kara.Hakan at gmx.de>, spake thus: > can anyone tell me how to rename the root user? > I'd like to have only a root user but with another name? Bad idea. While you could change the string "root" to "whatever" in "/etc/passwd", "/etc/shadow", and "/etc/group" I suspect various shell scripts and PAM authentication may get confused. YMMV.