On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 18:23 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > You might just want to disable root's login: I haven't tried this (or > anything else I'm recommending), but I should imagine that reducing the > length of the shadow password in /etc/shadow would mean that no > encrypted password would match. That would mean you couldn't log in by > password. The passwd command has a lockout and a disable feature; see the man page for details. However, I do not recommend this. Simply eliminate the ability to log in remotely as root, and lock the system down properly. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
