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Hi,

The security auditor give a this statement , what to do ?

On my solaris system (S10)

"The User ID "root" should not be used on the system - the su and
the priviledged account should be used from each administrator for
accountability purposes"

What to do ?
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Usually, the basic way to do this is to set the console line in /etc/default/login, and to set the ssh PermitRootLogin variable to "no"
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