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Old 10-14-2002
restricting root login
Hi
I want to to restrict root login on a redhat box from the terminal only. I read I need to comment out everything from /etc/securetty file except tty1 through tty11. There are some entries in the file that I do not u/stand, i.e. vc/1 through vc/11. What are these entries? Where do these allow login from?

I use VNC for remote admin. Will commenting out these disallow root login from the VNC somsole too?

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Srini
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Old 10-16-2002
You're probably using devfs. In devfs the device names for tty are called vc and they're listed in the directory /dev/vc/

so allowing logins only from vc number one, is accomplished by
adding...

vc/1

... to your securetty, (note that this is vc/1 NOT vc1)

Smilie
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Old 10-18-2002
one mistake often people do is assume that if the /etc/securetty settings are correct, SSH will not allow root connections either, which is false. You will have to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config, or /etc/ssh2/sshd_config to set PermitRootLogin to No.
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