How can I prevent normal users from being able to look up other logged-in users?
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For security and privacy reasons, I want to stop logging logins, as well as hiding information about currently logged-in users.
So far, I tried revoking reading permissions to utmp and wtmp:
sudo chmod o-r /var/run/utmp
sudo chmod o-r /var/log/wtmp
Which successfully stops
w
and who
commands from working. They return without information about other users.
However, as demonstrated in the answer in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/734857/other-users-are-logged-in-how-does-the-system-know-where-is-the-information-l it is still possible to access the information about other logged-in users via a DBus call to systemd-logind or elogind.
How can I disable this specific DBus call? Or, in general, how can I prevent normal users from being able to look up other logged-in users?
Asked by kylex
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Feb 9, 2023, 11:43 PM
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