miguel gmail wrote
But, in this case, you can leave the boot cd to your boss, and protect either the BIOS and the Bootloader with a password that only you and / or boss know. If somebody needs to run a fsck, he will need to enter the BIOS pwd and the booloader password.
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. So this is the same risk like giving the user the root password: He can hack your system. But as I said before, I must trust someone who is supposed to care about the system if I'm not there. Otherwise, no one but me can ever maintain anything... -- 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. *