From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 14:49:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083DA37B402 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:49:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NiaK-000Fmh-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 22:49:40 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 07F521171; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:49:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:49:38 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I rename root? Message-ID: <20020107224938.GE1093@raggedclown.net> References: <20020107221550.GA1093@raggedclown.net> <20020107142033.B28954-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020107142033.B28954-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:28:37PM -0800, Thomas Cannon wrote: > > > > Anyway, what was the question again ? > > > > It was, "Can I rename root?" to which the answer seems to be: > > Yes. > > You can. You've got the source code to the entire operating system, > and you can change the superuser's name to phil (yes, like the groundhog > phil) or to whatever you might want it to be, although it'll probably be > rather more involved than it might be worth. Especially if you ask about > it first. > > -tcannon > Where were you Mr Cannon when all this started ? You could have rescued this thread at birth :) I think your answer should go in the FAQ, as a sort of LFAQTPLOR. Mmm. Least Frequently Asked Questions That Perpetuate Lots Of Replies. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message