theoretical question - can root's username be changed?

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Fri Dec 2 15:01:01 UTC 2005


> The privileges are given to UID 0, but many things depend on the name as
> well so it becomes very difficult to remove the username.
> 
I had this reaction also, But in thinking about it I had a hard time
coming up with any facility in Fedora that depend on the name root.
Could you give an example?
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