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Re: Securetty: limits root login while allowing 'su -'



* Ennio-Sr <nasr.laili@tin.it> [Thu, 23 Oct 2003 at 23:00 GMT]:
>  Hi, everybody on the NG.
>  I limited root login to two ttys only  (in /etc/securetty) but yesterday
>  I discovered I could 'su -' to root in the excluded ttys.  Do you think
>  [...]

Many thanks to all of you for the reassuring answers ...
As a matter of fact I do have:
auth 	required pam_wheel.so 	group=wheel	debug
in /etc/pam.d/su.
Regards,

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