Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?
Date	2020-08-04 13:50 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 11:44:04AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote:
> As my root account is disabled, I do all administration as the "normal" user
> with the help of sudo for running administrative commands. The user "root"
> shall not login nowhere, not at the physical console and not by ssh, never.

Remember that this also means you can never boot in single-user ("rescue")
mode.  If you ever need to boot in quasi-rescue mode, you'll have to
go down even lower and override the init= kernel parameter.

If you don't know what that means, you should NOT be doing this.

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[OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-08-04 09:50 +0200
  Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-04 11:00 +0200
    Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-08-04 11:50 +0200
      Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-04 12:20 +0200
      Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-08-04 13:50 +0200
        Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-08-04 14:30 +0200
        Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-04 15:10 +0200
          Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-08-04 17:30 +0200
            Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-04 19:00 +0200
      Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-08-04 16:00 +0200
        Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-08-04 16:10 +0200
          Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-08-04 17:10 +0200
  Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Keith bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2020-08-04 11:00 +0200
    Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-08-04 11:10 +0200
  Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-08-04 18:50 +0200
  Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-08-04 20:50 +0200
    Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-08-04 22:30 +0200
      Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-08-05 08:40 +0200

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