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From: Robert Ullrich <roul76@×××.de>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Prevent users to login directly
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 06:57:37
Message-Id: 20040728085538.4cafed72@springfield
In Reply to: [gentoo-security] Prevent users to login directly by Robert Ullrich
1 By the way: In HP-UX it works that way:
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3 Simply put in the user's .profile first line
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5 [ "$0" != "-su" ] && exit
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7 and he could only login via su. Every other login-method (directly, ssh, etc.) will fail.
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9 regards - Rob
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12 On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:12:22 +0200
13 Robert Ullrich <roul76@×××.de> wrote:
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15 > Hi all,
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17 > for the whole emerge-action I created a user "emerge" to keep me from
18 > su-ing to "root". Now I want to prevent this user to login directly into the
19 > system. Instead of that the only way to login should be a "su - emerge".
20 > What could I do?
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22 > regards - Rob
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25 > gentoo-security@g.o mailing list
26 >
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Re: [gentoo-security] Prevent users to login directly Will Richey <w-gentoo@××××.org>