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[ILUG] Can root be renamed?

[ILUG] Can root be renamed?

David Gillen belial at redbrick.dcu.ie
Tue Jan 27 14:32:12 GMT 2004

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 in lists.ilug you wrote:
> Can "root account" be renamed to something less well  known?
> If so how?
> 
Well you could create another user account and give it a UID
of 0 and then delete the root user login.

db
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