There is no such thing as a user 'node' (well, unless you use one of those modules). Users are just users.

If you get rid of /user, how are you ever going to get in to administer the site?

I have a bunch of sites where the login block has been disabled entirely. On those sites, one must use the /user path. I don't see what the harm of leaving that in place could be. Without an ID and password, the user is going nowhere.

Nancy

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.

From: Tim Johnson

Actually on my site it's 'user' not login. ('login' gives me "Page
Not Found") As it is now, I can create a page with the login block
that could be a secret name. But 'user' persists. I would really
like to disable the 'user' node, which is (I guess) kind of a
'builtin' node. I wonder if it could be disabled from the database.
What do you think?