12 Mar
2005
12 Mar
'05
07:56
On Fri, 11 Mar, 2005 at 23:52:39 +0100, Frank Steiner wrote: <snip>
Anyway, in which way would this be more secure than giving the user the password? Booting from a CD to perform the fsck, he can enter a new encrypted string to /etc/shadow and has the root password after rebooting.
<snip> So why don't you simply do that? Right before you leave, you edit /etc/shadow and - move 'your' encrypted string off of the system - enter a different string And when you return; Move 'your' string back into /etc/shadow. HTH /Jon -- YMMV