On 13/05/2019 22:25, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 16:20 -0400, Bee.Lists wrote: <snip> > > It may not be "just another user", but it *is* a user as much as your > login username is a user. You could assign your own username a UID of > 0, and it would have the same privileges as 'root', but it would still > act as your username. NOTE: doing this is NOT recommended, do not do > it, seriously, do NOT do it. > <snip> > P. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Shame that "security experts" regularly recommend using another name for the root account - security through obscurity anyone? -- J Martin Rushton MBCS
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