[Sderby] root priviledges

[Paul Grosse]

Folks,

I seem to remember reading somewhere (although I have spent the last two days 
trying to find it again) that you can asign root's priviledges to another 
account (which is easy enough to do anyway and isn't really what this is 
about) but then, give root no priviledges (which is what this is about).

The idea being along the lines of: anybody who hacks into your system and 
manages to log into the root account finds themself with nothing spectacular. 
This is basically security by obscurity so it is limited in its effectiveness 
as anybody then just needs to find the real 'root-like' account and then just 
socially engineer the details from an unsuspecting target.

I'm not talking about sudo here.

Has anybody done this or know somebody who has done this? Or, know of this 
(know the web page I've seen -- I didn't bookmark it)?
-- 
Regards,


Paul Grosse

http://www.grosse.is-a-geek.com/
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pagrosse/

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