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- From: jcosta@quimic.pt (Joao Costa)
- Subject: Re: Preventing root login except on console
- Message-ID: <C02vw4.1wC@quimic.pt>
- Organization: Quimicontrol. Lda
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- References: <wilko.725657952@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:19:15 GMT
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- wilko@russia.idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes:
- : I don't know about the IRIX V.4, but in the V.3 I've seen you can
- : set this in /etc/default/boot. Look for a line 'CONSOLE=...', setting
- : this line to the real console only prevents root logins on any other
-
- It's the same in an SVR4. And if you set it to /dev/null or similar you
- won't get root logins.
-
- jc
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