[SUMMARY] Re: Disabling root login

From: Ryan McConigley <ryan_at_cs.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:21:49 +0800

         Wow, talk about a response. Thanks to the 40 odd people who
responded. The solution is very simple. Remove the line "ptys" from
/etc/securettys. Did that and it works - yay!

         Thanks again,

                 Ryan.



At 17:51 29/01/2001 +0800, Ryan McConigley wrote:

> Hi once more. We've got one of our machines that allow root to
> telnet in directly. This fits into my "Bad Move" (tm) catagory and I was
> hoping someone out there could tell me how to disable it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan.
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