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October 18th, 2004, 10:47 AM

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Preventing login to application accounts...

Hi,

I've been looking for an answer to this question everywhere and can't seem to get a straight one so I thought I'd come here. I've got users who adminster certain applications on UNIX servers. Those applications have accounts associated with them. The users who administer these accounts have other users who work for them who have, apparently, been logging in as the application-user instead of themselves. Is there a way, without disabling the account, to force the standard users to log in as them selves first and then "su" to the application user? Basically remove the ability for application account to accept remote logins?

Thanks,

Jon

October 19th, 2004, 06:56 AM

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I believe (but am not admin) that you can block remote access for accounts. Thus they could not log on directly to the account and can only sudo.

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