Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!atlvmic1.vnet.ibm.com!vrbass From: vrbass@atlvmic1.vnet.ibm.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: root restrictions Message-ID: <9106132050.AA27815@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 13 Jun 91 20:49:36 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 17 >>>I need a mechanism to restrict root logins to the console. chuser telnet=false rlogin=false should do the trick if your other terminals are on the network. If you have both network and serial terminals, you're going to have to go to the secondary authentication methods mentioned earlier. From: Vance R. Bass AIX Systems Specialist, IBM Knoxville Internet: vrbass@atlvmic1.vnet.ibm.com VNET: ATLVMIC1(VRBASS) Any resemblance between the above and the official IBM position is purely coincidental. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, | | even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+