Re: Root username

[Travis Saling <trav u washington edu>]

> The root username is rather obviously 'root'.  You generally don't ever
> change the name of the root account, since that will break a lot of
> software which looks for the root user account by name.
>  

Well, someone from the Windows world might think the root username was 
"obviously" admin or Administrator.  :-)  So depending on one's 
background, it might not be as apparent as it might seem to someone 
who's cut their teeth on some flavor of *nix.

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