Rename root

[George Farris]

No use sudo instead.  Trying to rename root is asking for trouble big
time.  Create users and assign privileges vis sudo.

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 13:08, Cameron Showalter wrote:
> 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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