From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752483AbaANQq6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:46:58 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.226]:16737 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752442AbaANQkY (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:40:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:40:19 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: Joe Bor?? Cc: Greg KH , abbotti@mev.co.uk, hsweeten@visionengravers.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20140114164019.GD13710@home.goodmis.org> References: <1388425244-10017-1-git-send-email-jdb@sitrep3.com> <20140109183909.GA10563@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.130:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 06:49:39PM +0000, Joe Bor?? wrote: > > I didn't do the changes as root, I sent them from my server as it has SMTP out. > Hmm, this gives me an idea. There's nothing, I believe, that makes the root user have to have the name "root" except for the passwd file. Maybe I'll just rename "root" to "walley" and then use "root" as my normal account. If anyone tries to break into "root" they will just gain access to a normal account and nothing more ;-) /me goes back to hacking -- Steve