From: Michael Shigorin <mike@osdn.org.ua>
To: community-en@lists.altlinux.org
Subject: Re: [Comm-en] ALT Server 4.0 - Preventing Root Log-ins
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:34:38 +0200
Message-ID: <20100302073437.GR18182@osdn.org.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8C7278.2060404@gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 08:05:44PM -0600, Virtual Sky wrote:
> How difficult would it be to configure my ALT Server 4.0 box to
> disallow 'root' user log-ins and only allow a regular user
> log-in and then 'su' to the root account?
I'd do something like this to invalidate root password:
cp -a /etc/tcb/root/shadow /etc/tcb/root/shadow-
echo 'root:x:14029::::::' > /etc/tcb/root/shadow
> If easy enough to configure, how does this affect the web
> browser configurator interface? Can you specify a regular user
> as the "administrator" to log in via the web interface?
AFAIR no.
--
---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.ru>
------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-02 2:05 Virtual Sky
2010-03-02 7:34 ` Michael Shigorin [this message]
2010-03-02 7:46 ` Alexey Rusakov
2010-03-02 12:06 ` Virtual Sky
2010-03-02 21:11 ` Michael Shigorin
2010-03-02 23:28 ` Virtual Sky
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