About root or administrative account

[jarrodhenry at comcast.net]

It's worth noting , too.. that many people have had prior experience with Linux/Unix.  Myself, I remember talking to old hat Unix administrators before Linux ever came out.  One of their comments to me was "First, disable root. Use Su or something else.  That way, they've got to get your account AND password, not just your password.  Second, if you can't disable a root account, change it's name or set another account UID 0. "  (Ironically, most sysadmins used "toor" in this case, so, it was still "known") 

It's funny that Ubuntu takes an OLD unix sysadmin trick, turns it standard, and then people act like they're radically altering the Unix security model. 

This has been how the "real" admins do linux/unix for a long time.  Anyone arguing differently really hasn't known very many old school Unix admins.

Jarrod

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: David B Teague <davidbteague at verizon.net>

> *Question: How about a bad one [distribution]?*
> *
> This is easy, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu are bad distros,
> they killed security by disabling root account. Any distro with no
> system admin account is bad.
>