RE: [cobalt-users] Disallowing remote root login

["Colin J. Raven" <cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > > 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??
> 
> Er, no. RedHat-7, which I'm doing first. The moment I'm comfortable with
> this one, I'm moving over and doing the same thing to my Qube which I
> have *assumed* will operate on the same basis. It's just that I don't
> futz with the Qube unless I absolutely have to since at the moment
> that's my primary server.
> 
> Why? Does your server not have this? The alternate method, of course, it
> to edit the /etc/group file and simply add the names (comma separated,
> no spaces) to the wheel group line. It's just that reading the man pages
> gave me the distinct impression that this command was better since it
> would also update shadow information properly.

Naah, the reason I asked the question was because of the mention of group
"wheel" which has a disntinctly BSD'ish flavor to it. Perhaps the group
also exists in a pure RH distro.
On my RH6.2 box the group doesn't exist,,,I was just curious is all.
BSD takes security VERY seriously indeed BTW. You should defintely play
with BSD/freeBSD sometime if you have the chance.

Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
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