(fwd) disabling remote console

[jabr at tarnhelm.blu.org (John Abreau)]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:07:49 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Bill Toomey <bill at toomey.net>
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: disabling remote console
>
> Group,
>      I should not have been, but I was surprised when I could remotely log
> in as root.  I would like to disable this so remote users would have to
> log on under their account and then su to do anything as root.  In Solaris
> we put a line CONSOLE=/dev/console in the file /etc/default/login.  I
> could not find a similar place on my Linux host.  Is there one?
>           Thanks,
>            Bill
>
> Bill Toomey  bill at toomey.net
>              http://toomey.net
>
>

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