On Sun Nov 01 1998 11:53, Vikrant Potnis wrote:
> Hi all,
> I put the following shell script in /etc/profile.
> for i in `ps | grep telnet | cut -d " " -f 1`
> do
> kill -9 $i
> done
With all due respect, this approach is really ugly :)
> When i telnet and login as root the process is killed...
> When i login as user , the process does not get killed
> Why??? Is there any other way of stopping root from remote login?
man securetty
(By default, root shouldn't be able to log in from anywhere except a local
console. Unless it's done with something like ssh).
Cheers
Tony
