Apparently OS is ignoring access.conf file

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Issue

  • While do below change on access.conf file, still able to login as root on rhel7. It works fine on RHEL6.
tail -1 /etc/security/access.conf -:root: ALL EXCEPT LOCAL

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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