[CentOS] Another Fedora decision

[Scott Robbins]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 08:18:23AM -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2015-02-04, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
> >
> > One might question why *nix distributions insist on providing a known
> > point of attack to begin with.  Why does user 0 have to be called
> > root?  Why not beatlebailey, cinnamon or pasdecharge?
> 
> That is more or less what OS X does.  User 0 still exists, and it's
> labelled as "root", but there is no way (unless the owner goes way out
> of his way) to actually log in as root.  The first account created is
> given full sudo access, and can choose to grant sudo to subsequently
> created users.  (Users with sudo can still get a root shell, but that's
> not the same as logging in as root.)
> 
> I thought Ubuntu did this as well, but I haven't installed Ubuntu for
> quite a while.  Anyone know?

Yes, I think they were one of the first ones to do it. I remember thinking
at the time, ah, copying Apple.

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