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. 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.) > -- > Claude Jones > Bluemont, VA, USA >
