doelz@urz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz / Biocomputing Basel) (05/02/90)
This is a request for the system developers: On other UNIX systems /bin/login checks for a file called /etc/securetty which contains all the terminals where root is permitted to log in. This is kind of the opposite of pandora, but useful to avoid network hackers to get root access. Is there any plan to implement this kind of functionality? In summary, nice features would include * /etc/securetty as described above * secondary password facility (the dialup approach in IRIS UNIVERSE is not practicable) * password maturation in the sysadmin tools (Yes I know it's there already but I need to edit the password file each time I enter a new user manually ...) * more than eight characters in the passwd field, and checking for arbitrary characters from the /etc/passwd file in order to avoid 'trivial' passwords , e.g. first name, office phone number, etc. Regards, Reinhard