Re: theoretical question - can root's username be changed?

[Claude Jones <claude_jones levitjames com>]

On Thu December 1 2005 9:31 pm, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> > Subject line says it all...
>
> Define "change a user's name". What is a user on a computer
> with a different name? Isn't that a different user?
> Are you asking whether other users may have the same privilege
> as root?
> The answer is "Yes".
>

Let me put it differently. Root's UID is 0 - suppose I change UID 0's User 
Login to 'doorknob' - first, can this be done? Second, would I have to create 
a new home directory called 'doorknob'? Third, are there any implications, 
doing this, for other software and/or settings in a Linux PC? Fourth - if 
this shouldn't be done, can a new user, say UID 15, be created with all the 
same privileges as root, and can root then be purged? 

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA