[TriLUG] disabling root?

[Jeff Bollinger]

You can also make that change from /etc/security/access.conf.   It's a 
really useful file to limit who can and cannot login from where.

Jeff

Greg Brown wrote:

> I missed that from the pervious post.  Thanks, it works great!
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 13 March 2002 11:37 am, you wrote:
> 
>>Greg Brown [gregbrown at mindspring.com] wrote:
>>
>>>Is it possible to disable the root logon from everywhere except the
>>>console? I'd still like to be able to su once logged in, but I'd like to
>>>make sure nobody out there just hack on in as root.
>>>
>>Yup.  Make sure you're only allowing remote access via ssh and change
>>/etc/ssh/sshd_config from PermitRootLogin yes to PermitRootLogin no.
>>
>>Mike
>>
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Jeff Bollinger
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