On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:08:18 Iain Buchanan wrote: > 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
Thanks for this! :-) > 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? Know how? -- Regards, Mick
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