Have you enabled the "securetty" feature? I think it requires a PAM
module (pam_securetty.so) and it's not enabled by default.
Humberto
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julius Szelagiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disable root login
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Julien Rennard wrote:
> > I want to know if it's possible to disable root login on clients using
> > xdm.
> > I had 'xlogin.Login.allowRootLogin=false' line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresource
> > file but xdm (of course restarted) don't seems to mind about it.
> > Any ideas ?
> Julien,
> on most UNIX system this is controlled by /etc/securetty file. The
> entries in it, one per line, specify which tty devices are allowed root
> login. My /etc/securetty on HP-UX system has one line only:
> /dev/console, that takes care of it.
> I've just tried it on my test ltsp server and i can still log in
> as root! drat! now i want to know how to disable it too. julius
>
>
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