Hi Mike, Mike Tierney wrote
I'm in a similar situation of having to leave root passwords in "a secure place" incase I am not around. :(
Though in the fsck case there is an alternative I have just thought of, but the solution may be WORSE than the problem! If you want people to be able to do a fsck in an emergency, then you could always leave a "Rescue CD" with your boss... Then if anyone needs to actually do a fsck on a crashed server they can use the rescue disk to boot up and fsck the filesystem in question, and then reboot the server.
a good solution for simple PCs, but we also run some IBM pSeries for which the users first would have to attach the SCSI-CDROM to the right controller, then enter the pSeries bios via a Hardware Management Console and chose the boot order in a way very very different and more complicated from a PC bios. In this case, I really would prefer to let them know the root password :-) -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: -4054 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *