[wp-testers] Incorrect Username / Incorrect Password

[Michael Clark]

At 3:49 PM +0100 4/3/08, Daniel Woolstencroft wrote:
>Is there an argument for _not_ having the default username as Admin? Maybe
>as one of the install steps we ask what the default username should be? Or
>include it in wp_config...?

Yes, if the default WP super user is not the regular and expected 
"admin" user login, then an attacker will have a more difficult time 
hacking and cracking your WordPress. If anything, automated attacks 
would be much more likely to fail. In an ideal world, you would never 
post anything as the admin. Your day to day blogging and commenting 
would be done as a regular author user, not as user with admin 
privileges. Mike


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