Claude Jones kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 2. joulukuuta 2005 06:16): > Why the word 'feeble'? If everyone in the > Linux world knows that the chance is good that there is a user > called 'root' on any given Linux box, and that user has nearly > unrestrained privileges, why would it be feeble to double the > guessing that must go on to get at root's privileges, by > changing his username. Because the privileges are bound to UID=0, not to any particular username. Changing the username doesn't add security in any way because root exploits try to change the effective UID to 0 or try to change the operation of a process already running at UID 0. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
