Re: Supervisor Lockout

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From: Phil Randal
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:00

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In article <3pcdvo$eul@wendy.ibmpcug.co.uk>
   lms@soton.ac.uk (Leslie Styles) writes:
>Is there any way to remove Supervisor from the Intruder Detection Lockout
>scheme. Although we do want to use lockout for all our user accounts, we
>don't want people to be able to lock the Supervisor account by simply
>typing login supervisor and not giving a password three times.

The safest way is to create a supervisor-equivalent user (keep the 
username and password secret).  Then you can log in, run syscon to
reset the supervisor account, etc.

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Phil Randal                                philr@hwcces.demon.co.uk
Environmental Services Department
Hereford and Worcester County Council
Worcester, UK

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From: Phil Randal <philr@hwcces.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Supervisor Lockout
Date: 1995/05/17
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