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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 00:00:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100502220019.GB29226@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BDD968E.7050309@gentoo.org>

* Stefan Behte <craig@gentoo.org> schrieb:

> in some environments you have to rename "root" to something else, just
> to be compliant to a (maybe dumb) security policy. This might be the
> case for PCI, and as far as I remember, it is necessary (not just
> "recommended") for a BSI Grundschutz certification (meaning something
> like "basic security protection") [1]. Unfortunately I didn't find the
> exact link.

Well, the BSI probably isn't such a good reference point. They officially
approved "secure" infrastructures for govermental crimes ... ;-o


cu
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-02 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-30 18:07 [gentoo-dev] A policy to support random superuser account names Michał Górny
2010-04-30 18:29 ` Fabian Groffen
2010-04-30 19:36 ` Alec Warner
2010-04-30 19:36 ` Alec Warner
2010-05-02 21:57   ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-05-03  7:31     ` Michał Górny
2010-05-04 19:19       ` Mike Frysinger
2010-05-02 15:13 ` Stefan Behte
2010-05-02 15:23   ` Krzysztof Pawlik
2010-05-02 18:52     ` Stefan Behte
2010-05-02 22:06     ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-05-02 22:00   ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]

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