Jeff Vian wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 21:15 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
Subject line says it all...
of course, (in practice if not in fact)
root is actually a username in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
That user can be given any name you choose, but be very careful. Other
programs depend on the username of root. /etc/aliases is an example
where NOT having the username root would break things for mail.
Actually, alias shouldn't be a problem. One should always redirect
root's mail to some admin type who reads it oneself.
You can easily give some other user the root privileges ( UID=0, GID=0 )
and use that account instead of root for the same authority. (Note that
this applies to the standard Linux authentication and may not apply in
the same way to SELinux.)
I'm sure selinux won't care, but many scripts are likely to. Do a little
grepping to see what might care, or simply do it.
You can always boot from CD to recover.
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Cheers
John
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