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 at 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++