Rename root

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Feb 6 21:34:40 UTC 2004


Am Fr, den 06.02.2004 schrieb Hakan Kara um 22:22:
> I thought it would serve to more security in my system...
> is it not a security problem to know the name of su on a system to get 
> easier into it ?

There is _no_ security by obscurity!

It does not matter which name the system's superuser has, if root or
admin or else, he has UID 0. Anyone with just little skill can very
quickly find out which users have UID 0.

Changing root's name to anything else will cause you nothing but big
pain.

Alexander


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