On 2019-05-13 16:55, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
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@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Shame that "security experts" regularly recommend using another name for the root account - security through obscurity anyone?
Not here, sorry ;-)
Valeri
PS Script kiddies will get UID=0, not username=root, when succeed in pretty much anything they use to elevate privileges on attacked machine.
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