>|>> There's no reason you can't keep "root" and add an account named "bofh"
>|>> that also has uid 0 and gid 0. Those silly berkeley people often do this
>|> Ah yes, but the advantage of changing the name of root is that it makes it
>|> just a little more difficult to crack. That way, people need to figure out not
>|> only the password, but the account name as well. This is a popular technique
>|> in NT administration: changing the name of the Administrator account. After
>|> all, it needs all the help it can get. . .
> Security by obscurity is no security at all.
Excuse me? Are you saying that you are not obscuring your passwords? ;-)
In all other respects, though, I agree. Especially in respect to encryption
algorithms.
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cat /dev/boiler/water | tea | sieve > /cup
mount -t hdev /dev/human/mouth01 /mouth ; cat /cup >/mouth/gulp
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