Rename root

[Cameron Showalter]

extremely bad security practice... 

create a real user and add that user to group root in /etc/group

don't go any further than that. 

if you are a risk taker, just use root.    but as i said, extremely bad 
security practice.

is there a reason for it?

Hakan Kara wrote:

> Hi
> can anyone tell me how to rename the root user?
> I'd like to have only a root user but with another name?
> Thanks
> Hakan
>
>

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