From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:21:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hdlsqn$fbr$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911122001.57860.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On 11/12/2009 10:01 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?
You cannot impose any restrictions to the root user. root is
unrestricted by definition. It's useless to even start thinking about
trying. What you *can* do, is give them a VPS inside of which they are
root.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-14 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-12 20:01 [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI Mick
2009-11-12 20:39 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-12 20:56 ` Mick
2009-11-12 21:08 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-12 21:34 ` Paul Hartman
2009-11-12 21:46 ` Mick
2009-11-12 21:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-12 22:15 ` Mick
2009-11-13 15:39 ` Paul Hartman
2009-11-12 22:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-12 22:18 ` Mick
2009-11-12 23:08 ` Iain Buchanan
2009-11-13 2:45 ` Zeerak Waseem
2009-11-14 0:24 ` Mick
2009-11-14 7:01 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-11-14 7:07 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-11-14 19:32 ` Mick
2009-11-14 20:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 5:15 ` Stroller
2009-11-15 7:44 ` Dale
2009-11-15 8:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 12:47 ` Stroller
2009-11-15 15:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 8:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-15 10:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 13:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-14 9:21 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-11-14 10:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-14 15:13 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-14 19:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-14 20:46 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-14 22:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 9:22 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-15 14:40 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-15 16:12 ` Alan McKinnon
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