----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael R. Jinks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Upper case user names
> James wrote:
> >
> > At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on
my
> > RedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice for a user
name,
> > but I like it.
>
> As an aside, any NOS worth its salt shouldn't be compromised at all by
> somebody knowing an account name. For example, I'll bet you an espresso
> that there is an account on that box whose username is "root".
>
(snip)
> Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation
>
LOL - point well taken. I try to operate from the position that I really
know very little about the inner workings of *nix. Seeing that quite a bit
of the source code is written in C, I picked up "Teach yourself C++ in 21
days" and am slowly working through it in an effort to learn how to read
source well enough to at least get the gist of what is going on. So far
I've got the comment lines down pat.
Until then, the script writer that provides the scripts that the script
kiddies use knows much much more than I do. For all I know, a non-root
username might be useful to someone. I notice that many posters to security
newsgroups disguise their domain names, machine names, etc. and still think
that there is a certain value to security through obscurity.
Cheers,
James
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