On Tuesday 05 February 2008 15:11, Terry Spaulding wrote:
>I am trying to setup SLES10 to prevent direct login as root on the 3270
>console for a SLES10 Linux guest.
>
>I have disabled that in /etc/ssh/sshd_config with no problem for ssh
>sessions.
>
>Something must be different on SLES10 compared to SLES9.
>
>I checked the /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager which has some new entries and
>some of the entries had different responses compared to SLES9.
>
>Has anyone found how to disable direct root login on the 3270 console for
>SLES10 ?

I think  you want to comment out lines in /etc/securetty, because the console
is treated as a hard-wired tty device.  SSH is not involved in logging into
the console.  See securetty(5) and login(1) for details.
        - MacK.
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Edmund R. MacKenty
Software Architect
Rocket Software, Inc.
Newton, MA USA

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