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Caution: Do not rename a user's home folder
Key thing here is to always have a backup account with root access. create it, but don't use it. If you ever have something go wrong with your regular account, it makes it much easier to fix.
Caution: Do not rename a user's home folder
If you create an account with the short name of "admin" -- the full name is irrelevant -- OS X does not allow admin privileges to be removed from it. It's kind of a "root--lite", and it's the first account I create on any new Mac OS X install.
To hide that it exists from casual perusal of your machine, either switch the Account Preferences so that it displays username and password fields to fill out (which provides a bit more security against casual attempts to access your machine in general, since a potential sneak has to guess both a username and a password) or use a utility such as lwn to enable hiding of accounts with admin privileges. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18752
Caution: Do not rename a user's home folder
The one thing you do not want to do is have an activated root account. If you know how to make a disabled but active root account (logs in to false) and set sudo to require the root password - yes that is safer. But otherwise the OOTB config is a lot safer and having a root account lying around is really asking for it. And anything you need to do you can do from a sudo -s session anyway.
Caution: Do not rename a user's home folder
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