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- From: chk@alias.com (C. Harald Koch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: restricing root logins
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.000731.2740@alias.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 00:07:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alias.1992Nov10.000731.2740
- Sender: news@alias.com (News Owner)
- Organization: Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada
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- Is it possible to restrict root logins to certain ttys? Right now, anyone can
- login as root on any terminal line attached to our machines (including modems).
- We want to be able to restrict this, so that root logins are allowed only on
- "secure" terminals, i.e. those in the computer room. For other lines, we want
- people to login as themselves and then su, so we have at least some idea who
- became root.
-
- BSD Un*x had a configuration file listing "secure ttys"; is there an IRIX
- equivalent?
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