preventing root login
 

Hi
How do i prevent direct root login?
Where will i get help about securing Linux?
Regards
Vishal

What distro are you using???

I am using Redhat Linux 8. I am using no graphical login as it is not supported.

And, as Root, did you already create user accounts ?

Re: preventing root login
 

Hey there!

Not quite sure what you mean, if you mean you ONLY want to be able to access your box with admin controls via an "su -" command, let us know. If you mean something else, please tell us that. Could you just be a little more specific, it would really help. Thanks.

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Where will i get help about securing Linux?

Right here of course:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...p?s=&forumid=4 ;)

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Regards Vishal

Cool

Well read up a little bit on PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ , look up /etc/securetty it must be well commented and self-documenting. And also get used to sudo - http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/
There is a helpful example on setting up sudo http://www.linux4biz.net/articles/sudo.html

Hi
I have already created user accounts. I dont want direct root login. I want users login to use 'su -' for login.
Regards
Vishal