topic su restricting in Operating System - HP-UX

su restricting

avm — Sat, 07 Apr 2001 17:10:01 GMT

Hai Friends,
Can any body tell me the script which will avoid su as root
(either su root or simply su)
thanx in advance
avm

Re: su restricting

Thierry Poels_1 — Sat, 07 Apr 2001 19:44:17 GMT

passwd ;-)

Re: su restricting

Philip Chan_1 — Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:49:57 GMT

I guess what you wanted is to stop people from gaining root access by issuing the "su" command. Let me elaborate, to gain access to root, one would require the "su" program and the "password" of root. Stopping the use of su command won't keep you safe if people knew the root password, because they could still try telnet, rlogin etc.

The most important part is to keep the root "password" away from people.

~Philip