Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: John Servo <john@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Prevent users to login directly
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:27:57
Message-Id: 1090970839.21990.1.camel@Raiden.gotdns.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-security] Prevent users to login directly by Robert Ullrich
1 add a giant password to the user with "mkpasswd <insert giant random
2 characters or a passage from a book or something>" so that cracking is
3 out of the question?
4
5 and by the way you dont need the -, it's just "su emerge"
6
7 On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 00:12, Robert Ullrich wrote:
8 > Hi all,
9 >
10 > for the whole emerge-action I created a user "emerge" to keep me from
11 > su-ing to "root". Now I want to prevent this user to login directly into the
12 > system. Instead of that the only way to login should be a "su - emerge".
13 > What could I do?
14 >
15 > regards - Rob
16 >
17 > --
18 > gentoo-security@g.o mailing list
19 >

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Re: [gentoo-security] Prevent users to login directly "H. Streit" <hstreit@××××.edu>
Re: [gentoo-security] Prevent users to login directly Michael Ihde <ihde@××××.edu>
Re: [gentoo-security] Prevent users to login directly Robert Ullrich <roul76@×××.de>