Restricting root logins?

Paul Lindner lindner at cs.umn.edu
Sat Nov 17 04:38:14 AEST 1990


In <102261 at cc.utah.edu> JJDAVIS at cc.utah.edu writes:

>I'd like to restrict root logins on our 530 to the console.
>On a Sun system, I'd edit the /etc/ttytab:

>How do I get this effect in AIX (3.1, July updates)?

Go into our friend and nemesis SMIT and go
   Users
      Change / Show Characteristics of a User
           User NAME [root]

You can change the valid ttys for root and many other things in this
fashion.
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