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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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Subject: Re: How do I secure console/root logons?
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Date: 30 Jul 90 18:48:11 GMT
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In article <1990Jul25.175020.14184@aucs.uucp> peter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele) writes:
>I want to prevent users from being able to logon directly to root. I've created
>a wheel group and only those users that are in wheel can su to root, but
>anyone can still do a direct logon to root from a terminal. How do I prevent
>this? Thanks.

While RISC/os does not support the general "secure tty" option of BSD, it
does have one sort of security, at least in release 4.50 and later.

If the file "/etc/login.root.console.ok" exists, root will be permitted to
log in only from the console.
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