What microsoft has to say about XP

[James Mckenzie]

Gordon and the rest of the list:

Sorry about the top post, but I am replying through my web mail host.

I have one question:  Can we change the name of root, or even get rid of it?  The elimination of the Administrator account and replacing it with a user with admin priveleges is a well known security 'enhancement' to Windows and I would like to apply the same to my FC system.  It is my guess that most UNIX/Linux worms is that they look for a user with '0' as the user id.  Maybe what I am asking is an exercise best left to the student.  However, I do not want to revisit mistakes made by others.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Keehn <gordonkeehn at netzero.net>
Sent: Jan 18, 2005 7:15 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: What microsoft has to say about XP

Dotan Cohen wrote:

And how does this differ from the warnings against logging into 
Linux as ROOT?  The only difference that I see is in the fact that most 
malicious web content is (at the moment) directed at Windows.  Don't get 
me wrong;  I carry no love for Microsquat or for Windows, but if you are 
going to criticise, at least pick an issue which doesn't apply to both 
sides.  As my buddy Joe Friday used to say, "Only the names were changed 
to protect the guilty."


James McKenzie
A Proud User of Linux!