topic Re: ROOT ACCOUNT DELETION in ONTAP Discussions

ROOT ACCOUNT DELETION

NAYABRASOOL — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:15:35 GMT

Hello Folks,

We have an audit in couple of weeks , now my people asked me to remove all GENERIC ACCOUNTS on filers , i see i have generic account ROOT in my filer , do i need to remove this to meet the audit requirements else i have to rename it ?? please advise me asap.

Thanks,

Nayab

Re: ROOT ACCOUNT DELETION

aborzenkov — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:33:15 GMT

You can’t really delete, but in recent Data ONTAP versions you can disable it.

Re: ROOT ACCOUNT DELETION

NAYABRASOOL — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:08:11 GMT

OK, tell me how i can disable it else my aim is here to rename it to some other name is that possible to rename it to " sadmin " ???

Re: ROOT ACCOUNT DELETION

NAYABRASOOL — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:08:36 GMT

And also advise if this effects any service running under ROOT account ??

Re: ROOT ACCOUNT DELETION

aborzenkov — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:11:42 GMT

See “Data ONTAP 8.1 System Administration Guide for 7-Mode”, specifically “Root access to the storage system”

Re: ROOT ACCOUNT DELETION

NAYABRASOOL — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:14:19 GMT

Ours is Ontap 7.3 is the same as above applies to our version as well

Re: ROOT ACCOUNT DELETION

aborzenkov — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:17:07 GMT

Yes.

Re: ROOT ACCOUNT DELETION

NAYABRASOOL — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:39:17 GMT

Hey i have found it how to disable root

FAS01> options security.passwd.rootaccess.enable off

but is there any way how to rename it from ' ROOT' to ' SADMIN ' Please Advise.

Re: ROOT ACCOUNT DELETION

NAYABRASOOL — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:03:57 GMT

We should not rename it as most of the process runs under root if we rename it , it will crash the filer