Removing Root Login From Telnet

[Skul-X]

I am currently running mandrake 9.1, and would like to be able to remove the capabilities of loggoing in as root, when telneting into the machine, how would I go about setting this up???

Thanks in advance

Skul-X

[gbell7211]

I believe you can do that by commenting out all your remote shells in /etc/securetty

ttys and ttyp are all remote shells or vc if using redhat9

[DragonHead]

On Linux, the /etc/securetty file lists the devices on which "root" may log in.

To keep network logins of root from happening, remove everything but tty1 through tty8.

[kam]

I feel like I ought to remind you that ssh is much more secure because it encrypts all traffic.

[DragonHead]

that's true.

I don't even allow straight telneting into my machine. You have to use ssh.

[serz]

No way man, use ssh...