On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:09:22PM -0600, Henning, Brian wrote:
> i guess i am trying to set it up like i have my freebsd machine... the
> root password  can only be accessed locally on the machine unless the
> user is in the wheel group then that user can 'su' as root.

Change root's password in the /etc/shadow file to the single character '*'.
Do realize that the below point is correct, though:

> Anyway, the only thing I can think of is that you would not be able to
> boot the system to single-user mode.  But you can still boot with the
> "init=/bin/sh" kernel parameter, so that's not really a problem.

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