[wp-hackers] Default User Setup

[Kitty]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 18:51, Sebastian Herp wrote:
> Yes it is. The first account would be the admin account, but should it 
> really be named "admin"? I mean it does make brute force attacks a lot 
> easier if you only have to guess the password ...

Doesn't seem to be a problem with "root" on unix systems. 

> The user already has to provide a database user and password, why 
> shouldn't he/she provide another pair of data for the admin account? 
> However, if copy and paste really is too much for the average user, then 
> nevermind ;-)

Most of the time the shared host provides the DB name and password, so
it's just filling in the blanks, not coming up with it on their own.
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Kitty <mookitty at gmail.com>