Disabling root GUI access

[coreinfrastructure]

How to disable root GUI access for proxmox?

I know we can disable whole of root but if i am not wrong nodes use root to communicate with each other.

 

[dignus]

I don't know if you can disable it in the gui, but whatever you do, keep the system root user alive. It's used for a lot of things in a cluster.

 

[coreinfrastructure]

I don't know if you can disable it in the gui, but whatever you do, keep the system root user alive. It's used for a lot of things in a cluster.

Yes, Thought so.
Hence just want to disable GUI access. i.e root should not be login to GUI

 

[fba]

suggestion from here is to disable password of root, which should prevent login via GUI.

Post in thread 'Disable Root Account'

Feb 10, 2021

root is the linux root@pam user

the thing is a lot of options on PVE are permitted for root@pam user only, so disabling it would limit your options quite a bit.

you could remove the root password to achieve the same thing, that way you cannot login as root@pam directly but still be able to sudo to it from a shell (although i think you'd still be unable to use root@pam on the GUI)

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[SteveITS]

Just to note it, I believe it was destroying a disk/OSD that requires root in the GUI...not sure if there is anything else. (had to rebuild all our OSDs due to the bug in Ceph 19.2...see release notes for PVE 8.4)