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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!bowl.news.pipex.net!pipex!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!ais.net!ameritech.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.67.253.7!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!fred From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Howto restrict login at the console? Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:59:40 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <fred-ya02408000R2904971159410001@news.lightside.com> References: <3364F170.4DF6BC09@indigo.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: dcs67.dcs-chico.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.4.0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40088 In article <3364F170.4DF6BC09@indigo.ie>, Marcus Keane <keanem@indigo.ie> wrote: >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. > >Cheers, > >Marcus. > >-- > >======================================================================= > Marcus Keane / Indigo Helpdesk URL:http://www.indigo.ie/ > email: keanem@indigo.ie phone: Intl-353-1-6046913 >======================================================================= Physical access is root access, because the computer can be reset and single-user mode entered. Unless you have physical security, logical security is no help. -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party