That really wouldn't work for  our environment (at least).  Operators
have the ability to "logonby".  The worst they could do would be a #cp
logoff.

By leaving root logged on at the console -- I shudder to think of the
vulnerability there.
 
> It would be a lot easier to configure (and probably more 
> useful to have) a root shell to always be running on the 
> console without a Unix login required. Since you already have 
> a authorization method in place (the VM userid login) that 
> does password suppression correctly, that would be the 
> "right" thing to do -- after all, if you have the VM userid 
> password, you can already do all the harm that a root user 
> can do, and you have secure logging of the fact that the 
> login occurred. 

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