On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 22:18 +0000, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:09:01 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Gdm itself has a config option to disallow root logins > > Ahh, unfortunately I can only access it remotely via ssh at this stage. > Hopefully the pam method will work fine.
You don't need anything more to configure gdm than ssh access - this is Linux after all & a good program has text based configurations :) Edit /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf In the section [security] add: AllowRoot=false You may then have to restart xdm. However, if someone has the root password to log in to X, then what's to stop them changing anything you do now? -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> BOFH Excuse #112: The monitor is plugged into the serial port
