On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:48:32PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > >On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:09:19PM -0400, Tamouh H. wrote: > >>On the other hand, Windows has the ability to change the administrator > >>user or completely disable it. Something not available in Unix systems. > >>For example, a cracker or hacker targeting UNIX system will automatically > >>try to compromise the "root" user. It is 100% guaranteed to be there. On > >>the other hand in Windows, good sys admins will rename or complete > >>disable the administrator user hence making it more difficult to know the > >>administrator user. > >> > > > >Actually . . . technically, root users can be renamed and can, in many > >ways, be disabled. They can certainly be made inaccessible remotely. > > > > That can break many scripts though, can't it, if the dev improperly > looks up the name, not the UID?
Probably -- if you're talking about disabling or renaming the root account for users. I've never personally done it, so can't really comment on that. I have, however, generally made the root account inaccessible remotely -- and that hasn't cause me any problems at all. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production." _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"