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# 1  
Old 08-30-2004
Renaming of root account
Hi,

I have solaris 7. Just for implementing security on my system, I would like to know can I rename the root account to something else. After renaming will my os still function properly.

Regards,
# 2  
Old 08-30-2004
I have never heard of anyone doing that. It would not surprise me if something breaks. vipw will cease to function since it is designed to detect and prevent accidental deletion of the root account. I doubt that pwck would be happy either. But they are not essential. You might get away with it. However Sun will probably not support a configuration like that.

Any user can read /etc/passwd and obtain a list of accounts with uid 0. So I don't see that this will buy you any security. In fact, programs like login and ftp put additional restrictions on the root account and you will be losing that advantage.
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Old 08-30-2004
Hi

Ok. Thanks for the information

Regards,
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