It doesn't need to stop there. Does RedHat use suauth? (I am a Slackware user). If you edit (or create) /etc/suauth and add: root:ALL EXCEPT GROUP wheel:DENY Only users of the wheel group will be able to su. Like how FreeBSD is setup. I actually just locked myself out by adding this (woops :) -- Patrick Campbell -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathaniel Hall Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:34 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: SSH2 No, it does not. The thinking is to make it harder for somebody to figure out a username and password for SSH login and then trying to figure out a password to su - to root. Since it takes more time to figure out usernames and passwords than just passwords, you are more likely to discover the break in attempt. - -- Nathaniel Hall, GSEC Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking halln@xxxxxxx 417-447-7535 GPG Public Key ID: 0xAC187312 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
