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On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 22:18 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:09:01 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Gdm itself has a config option to disallow root logins |
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> Ahh, unfortunately I can only access it remotely via ssh at this stage. |
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> Hopefully the pam method will work fine. |
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You don't need anything more to configure gdm than ssh access - this is |
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Linux after all & a good program has text based configurations :) |
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Edit /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf |
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In the section [security] add: |
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AllowRoot=false |
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You may then have to restart xdm. |
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However, if someone has the root password to log in to X, then what's to |
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stop them changing anything you do now? |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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BOFH Excuse #112: |
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The monitor is plugged into the serial port |
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