renaming root account does not leverage increased security in my opinion

It would be easy to find out new name of the "superuser"

So whats the advantage to rename root?

I run a puppy linux kind of os and automatically login as root, desktop
user
But I run critical applications as web-bowsers in a secured environment
using firejail - a kind of sandbox

As I understand it will in future releases implement --noroot that is
you cannot become root in that sandbox.

Every software can be hacked via bugs of course but hopefully
it wil make it harder for tha hacker

best regards

Scooby





On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Martijn Dekkers <
devuan-list1@???> wrote:

>
> What are the security problems with IRC? I use it to chat in ASCII and
>> make a log. Evidently it has other, more dangerous capabilities I'm
>> not aware of.
>>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=irc+client+exploit
>
> Are there any drawbacks to naming the root account something other
>> than 'root'? Perhaps by editing /etc/password and /etc/shadow? And, of
>> course, renaming /root correspondingly?
>
>
> I understand that the general consensus is "don't do it, it will break
> stuff" as many services and tools could depend on a root account being
> present.
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