From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8hgm-00021E-Kq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:58:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F48EE0B52; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:58:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com (mail-fx0-f225.google.com [209.85.220.225]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29ED3E0B52 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:58:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm25 with SMTP id 25so2794513fxm.26 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:58:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=6BMMBSEfJ+0wQl6tGLmBf39ilutjLF3VvFsIj+v9C6Q=; b=eDtAICP+PSdO5yw15L92wvM/Q3tJqX07RFUBPrdX3VNMlfFceoqosnfm4M3QwDjlsF 2Ici4tlRNX1cUhKmt1rTvCq4MgLZ9kVKsN4+gbxzU5dCK+uoS7YmcUkJTZoTY9cMvKQc 4+vTqQcLoonXgy0VN8+6iHjq3WlMh58/CYfng= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ruj/sUAXiIPC2ryF4KeGoTac4DtSR5UII69WzDl5VwDmwBC4DlDx52fycJboiYd+0l C+EBH5okn6bfz+DHmE0cyocRgrkKRm+XWMOqND7PKPuULXpog8vQqtUh5mixdLYazBRG +N7jbVuBndH+iQBkjEysOHo9IHOURcUfa7vmU= Received: by 10.204.34.9 with SMTP id j9mr108633bkd.10.1258063020058; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:57:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-40-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm1078235fxm.1.2009.11.12.13.56.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:56:59 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:56:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.31-zen7; KDE/4.3.74; x86_64; ; ) References: <200911122001.57860.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <58965d8a0911121334o414cd549pbdbcd584521981c3@mail.gmail.com> <200911122146.31373.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200911122146.31373.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911122356.00290.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d5e54fd2-76ed-4e5b-a7a9-3d99b0c4cf8b X-Archives-Hash: 70a06abeb19584108408f45569844c7e On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:46:27 Mick wrote: > On Thursday 12 November 2009 21:34:24 Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Mick wrote: > > > I should know how to do this ... > > > > > > It isn't as simple as commenting out vc7 in /etc/securetty, right? The > > > persistent offenders would try to start another X session on a > > > different vc. > > > > > > Is there a trick I could add in /etc/pam.d/login or one of the > > > /etc/pam.d/gdm* files perhaps? > > > > How do you start X? Do you use xdm/kdm/gdm or do you just "startx" or > > use some other method? > > This box is configured to start X with gdm and it does not have kdm > installed. > http://www.google.com/search?q=block+root+login+gdm&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Hits #1, 2 and 3 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com