Disable telnet for root on AIX

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I wanted to disable telnet for root only.

What I ended up doing is creating a file called /dev/ssh. Then, I restricted the tty list for root to /dev/console and /dev/ssh. SSH treats the login tty as /dev/ssh, so this will allow remote SSH logins while at the same time stopping telnet.

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