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 1N8yc9-0006H9-8p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:03:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2746FE05D5; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4214E05D5 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so3011874yxe.32 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:03:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=VTAZlsocyaKv5g3DY14zrrhZcL0kHnmyYK4UrLqVLRo=; b=gZQcybBUmnzxm8olkhEsR5H+u+HM4KVJJQLc52pFa54pakw9f8Yy0zEGuoRWldWzGT 3yVujrDCyTbes3qr1nYBJDO85AY0FZpyn2sS1/bjnOZuOjosGRSajTO1jtbWKIBCiXft 0UePZUgGdPWxmx7dnCtexNwG87GgCD7Ccla1w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=V/eU926lW6cgLNOWb6FePOlpC/FimnguRTjy9E6tgtDhVLW4a7uS33lDGjOUSxkSsN okd7p8IR36QG6SLj3jwVKX2tJDgPYj4H1jznpOMaYc5zqlQGzX1/LMFfgqASWKsT5/42 PHD3owkLVxsCKhzeYd2GKCuRFowpRxN29QGsk= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.76.4 with SMTP id y4mr8153829yba.166.1258126793423; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:39:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200911122146.31373.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200911122001.57860.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <58965d8a0911121334o414cd549pbdbcd584521981c3@mail.gmail.com> <200911122146.31373.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:39:53 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: aa1ba253d5467360 Message-ID: <58965d8a0911130739q321fff30r9944c8b8de6ee0a5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 76dde126-1e02-44bd-adc9-f20d3070d7b8 X-Archives-Hash: 76f69b37e9e95b6cfa7867c6fc7beede On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:46 PM, 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. >From what I've read, root logins are disabled by default in gdm.