From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 2 22:05:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA17318 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA17310 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA26259; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:05:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Paul Dekkers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limit access to tty's? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote: > Can I make it so that normal users can't login on real vty's but just on > an terminal or using an telnet session? > I don't want them to login on the computer itself... :-) Some brainstorms: 1. If you have a keyboard lock switch on your case, use it. It really does work under FreeBSD, assuming you've installed it properly. :-) 2. Take away the keyboards. 3. Take away the displays and the keyboards. 4. Disable the vty's in /etc/ttys. But you won't be able to log in by the console either once the system finishes booting. But this is what serial consoles are for. :-) Hope this helps. Note that once someone gains access to the system case, then there's always and boot -s. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major