On Fri, 2005-02-12 at 09:01 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The privileges are given to UID 0, but many things depend on the name as > > well so it becomes very difficult to remove the username. > > > I had this reaction also, But in thinking about it I had a hard time > coming up with any facility in Fedora that depend on the name root. > Could you give an example? > -- > > ======================================================================= > Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods. > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > telephone: (210)-999-7484 Many rpm package scripts as well as just in /etc/* and /etc/*/* : crontab logrotate.conf quotagrpadmins rc.sysinit hotplug/dasd.agent init.d/mailman init.d/named init.d/xfs logrotate.d/ppp logrotate.d/psacct logrotate.d/yum mail/sendmail.cf makedev.d/00macros postfix/postfix-files rc*.d/[KS]*xfs rc*.d/[KS]*mailman rc*.d/[KS]*named rc.d/rc.sysinit samba/smbusers security/console.perms udev/udev.conf xinetd.d/* Many config files send mail to "root" which can be handled with a simple alias.
