user setup question.

Julien Gabel jpeg at thilelli.net
Sat Mar 13 11:40:15 PST 2004


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| I have an odd question.
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| I need to add a user to a system, but I don't want this user to be
| able to log in from outside - meaning only from the console itself.
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| I know root is set up this way, but I'm not sure how to do this.

Even for the root account, I think it depends of the configuration
of the software used to connect from the outside (ssh, etc.).

| Any pointers?

I don't know if it is the best way to achieve this, but setting
the 'ttys.allow' capability of login.conf(5) to 'ttyv0' may help.

~  1/ Don't set it to 'console'... or be prepared to boot on LiveCD
~     to correct the situation :)
~  2/ It may be better not to use the 'default' class.

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