How to disable the console menu (dpuconfig) on a Unitrends appliance (CentOS7)

ISSUE

Customer has requested that unauthenticated access to dpuconfig be restricted at the console.

**** ONLY WORKS ON CENTOS7 ****

RESOLUTION

1. Connect to appliance via SSH

2. Run the following commands to disable the dpuconfig tty1 terminal service.

SYSD=/etc/systemd/system; 
systemctl stop dpuconfig\@tty1.service; 
[ -f ${SYSD}/getty.target.wants/dpuconfig\@tty1.service ] && 
	mv -f ${SYSD}/getty.target.wants/dpuconfig\@tty1.service /usr/lib/systemd/system || 
	systemctl disable dpuconfig\@tty1.service


3. Enable and start the stock tty1 terminal service.

systemctl enable getty\@tty1.service
systemctl start getty\@tty1.service

ROLLBACK

1. Connect to appliance via SSH

2. Run the following commands to enable dpuconfig tty1 terminal service:

systemctl enable dpuconfig\@tty1.service
systemctl stop getty\@tty1.service
systemctl disable getty\@tty1.service
systemctl start dpuconfig\@tty1.service

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