On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 14:18, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 06:28, Richard Kurth wrote: > > Is there a way to Prevent anyone from logging in as root. I what them > > to only log in as admin and su to root. What would I change to make > > this work? Ooops. Just saw that you don't want root logins at all, whether on console or X. And what I wrote about some minutes ago only helps to prevent root logins to X, IIUC. Sorry. Wolfgang > > I'm on Debian Linux/ppc. > But if you have gdm running you might want to have a look at this: > > >From the > "Gnome Display Manager Reference Manual" (Gnome Help Browser): > "The Configuration File - gdm.conf" > > Excerpt: > ------------------------- > AllowRoot > AllowRoot=true > > Allow root (privileged user) to log in through GDM. Set this to false if > you want to disallow such logins. On systems that support PAM, this > parameter is not as useful as you can use PAM to do the same thing, and > in fact do even more. However it is still followed, so you should > probably leave it true for PAM systems. > --------------------- > > HTH > > Best Regards > Wolfgang > > -- > Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
