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Re: [cobalt-users] Disallowing remote root login



On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Long message warning, but I want to ensure that the final result of this
> thread is (a) enough to solve my problem, and (b) enough so that others
> can duplicate this on their own servers without further instructions.
> 
> In the spirit of tightening up security on my server, I've followed the
> instructions in the Armoring Linux page
> (http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/linux.html) which I highly recommend to
> *anyone* who does not consider themselves expert yet (which ought to be
> most of us).
> 
> I've issued the following commands:
> 
> gpasswd -a xxxxx wheel
> gpasswd -a yyyyy wheel
> gpasswd -a zzzzz wheel
Rodolfo...is this a BSD system by chance??

Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
Linux Registered User #82296
Sun Mar 25 10:11:01 EST 2001
 10:11am  up 25 days, 14:42,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00