>i said programable LOGIN name... other than "!root".... "if" they dont know
>what to logon as then hey... your home free... password are supplemental
>and "of course" necessary after the fact of initiating a login...
The original concern was with sniffed passwords, I seem to recall. In
this case, using a longer password (which is, as was pointed out,
functionally equivalent to concealing the login name as well) wouldn't
help because they'd just sniff that, too.