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Subject:    Re: Root username
From:       Travis Saling <trav () u ! washington ! edu>
Date:       2002-12-05 16:19:47
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>The root username is rather obviously 'root'.  You generally don't ever
>change the name of the root account, since that will break a lot of
>software which looks for the root user account by name.
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Well, someone from the Windows world might think the root username was 
"obviously" admin or Administrator.  :-)  So depending on one's 
background, it might not be as apparent as it might seem to someone 
who's cut their teeth on some flavor of *nix.

-- 
Travis Saling
Webmaster, UW Electrical Engineering
trav@u.washington.edu / webmaster@ee.washington.edu
(206) 543-8984


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