[CentOS] RHEL5 and CentOS 5 root logins
Daniel de Kok
danieldk at pobox.com
Wed Aug 8 11:15:16 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 06:58 -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I found, under a 64-bit CentOS 5 workstation install, it is possible to
> modify /etc/inittab and add a couple of lines to prevent root from logging
> into the console.
/etc/securetty is the right place to configure this, see the
securetty(5) manual page and
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-sec-network.html#s1-wstation-privileges
-- Daniel
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