noah
asked Feb 18 2017
Answer
Its a bad idea which should not be made. All the applications and process will assume that the username 'root' exists and its the Superuser.
So if you rename it, you should made changes in /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow , and in all the list of config files.
jagannatharumugam
asked Apr 02 2017
edited Oct 05 2018
How to rename the root account to another name in Linux
Can I rename the root user account' s name to any other name. Is it safe to do so, will it work fine or not.??