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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
