On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff <roberth...@rcn.com> wrote: >Lin Taosheng writes: >> Is that possible to implementated? > > For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, > but the User II. "Root" is special because it has UID 0. You can, > create other accounts with UIS 0 ... but it's usually a Very Bad > Idea. > > As far as I know, there's no reason you can't rename the "root" > account and have a non UID 0 account with that name. On the other > hand, if you're asking this question there may be a better way to > accomplish your objective: would you care to share?
The kernel doesn't really care what your user *name* is. See for example the 'toor user in '/etc/master.passwd'. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
