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madeye

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Registered: 2006-07-19

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[SOLVED]deny root login on console

Does anyone know how I go about denying root to login at the console?
I want to make sure a normal user logs in and then use SU to gain root privileges.

If I am not mistaken, this should be possible using the /etc/pam.d/login file. I just can't seem to find the information I need.
A search on the Internet and on the forums didn't give me a usable result. (I found some other useful information though   )

Last edited by madeye (2008-10-28 16:37:43)

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creslin

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Registered: 2008-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED]deny root login on console

Adding this line to /etc/security/access.conf should do what you want:

- : root : ALL

Last edited by creslin (2008-10-26 13:50:56)

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madeye

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Re: [SOLVED]deny root login on console

I just wanted to let everyone know that I found a solution for this.
The only thing I needed to do, was comment out all the vc/? lines in /etc/securetty. And voila! No more root login at the console.
I can still use SU to switch to the root user. I just need to login as a normal user first.

Marking this topic as solved.

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