> You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for > all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the > encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow > passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root. > > Ben
this is a no go,i dont want to install this package because i dont want to give root access to my brother: Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. it's because that when i was in win95,my brother had full access to the dialer and so,it could use the internet without my consentment,i dont want to give him any root privilege at all,i think that bloking access to root login while still allowing to su root and a regular change of password will be a better security scheme. thanks. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]