how to diable remote user to login? 1

[bonsky]

how can i configure in suse to disable login remotely.sorry.. newbie here.. thanks alot.

 

[KenCunningham]

Not sure, but is:

http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/suse/security/2003/10/msg00014.html

relevant?

 

[bonsky]

thanks alot for th reply, however, im looking at not allowing a user to login remotely. thanks!

 

[KenCunningham]

Could you add something in .profile for the user to check whether they're accessing from the console and if not, exit with a message if required?

 

[rzs0502]

Perhaps you can create a file called
/etc/remusers.deny

In /etc/profile, add something like this

## REMOTE LOGIN CHECK ##
if [ `cat /etc/remusers.deny | grep -w $USER | wc -l` -gt 0 ] ; then
        echo "##################################"
        echo "# REMOTE LOGIN NOT ALLOWED!!!!!! #"
        echo "##################################"
        exit 0
fi

"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[hoinz]

What exactly are you trying to achieve?
If you need to disable logins from almost everywhere (and without considering individual users) you might think about a quite different approach:
Disable telnet, disable rsh, allow ssh only from a few other hosts.
Suse Linux comes with a package called bastille that does things like these.

regards

 

[bonsky]

to all,
thanks alot for your real help. Basically, what i am trying to do is to disallow the user to remote login but i want the user to login via another name and su to that particular user that i blocked from remote.
I will try the remusers.deny later, however, i have configure that via editing the /etc/security/access.conf.

thanks alot!
edmon