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   From: Sybren Stuvel    
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   SINNER enlightened us with:   
   > Sure, the user 'root' if left as is, is called root, thats one less   
   > barrier, lets see the hacker guess a username of leurkb34534 and   
   > then get his password.    
      
   It's not that hard, since /etc/passwd is world-readable.   
      
   > Can you remove root and give another user UID 0, of course but how   
   > many users do?   
      
   Hardly anybody, since that provides ample protection.   
      
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