13 May
2019
13 May
'19
9:55 p.m.
On 13/05/2019 22:25, Pete Biggs wrote:
On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 16:20 -0400, Bee.Lists wrote:
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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.
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P.
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Shame that "security experts" regularly recommend using another name for the root account - security through obscurity anyone?
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J Martin Rushton MBCS