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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Howto restrict login at the console?
Date: 30 Apr 1997 10:14:20 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <3364F170.4DF6BC09@indigo.ie>,
Marcus Keane <keanem@indigo.ie> writes:
> Hi!
>
> I was just wondering if there was any way of restricting login at the
> console. What I'm after is the inverse(so to speak) of putting insecure
> on a line in /etc/ttys. That is, I only want root to login at the
> console. The machine isn't physically secure at the moment and I don't
> want people starting X sessions etc. I can login as root and lock the
> screen but I wouldn't trust people not to power cycle the machine when I
> wasn't around.
Something like
case .`tty 2>/dev/null` in
/dev/ttyv?) echo "Go away, you're not god !" >&2; exit 1;;
esac
in /etc/profile should suffice (assuming everyone at your site
uses [ba]sh).
> Cheers,
>
> Marcus.
>
> --
>
> =======================================================================
> Marcus Keane / Indigo Helpdesk URL:http://www.indigo.ie/
> email: keanem@indigo.ie phone: Intl-353-1-6046913
> =======================================================================
>
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !