On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:18:19AM +0300, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 2008/6/26 s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Alternatively, one day you may find that your nephew/neice, who you've > > invited in and told about Linux, has cracked root and blown away your > > wife's documents. How's your backup situation? What are you going to > > say to her? You're that machine's god. It and they need you to do > > the right thing if it's going to continue being useful. > > > > I do not think that they can crack root without my 8 character > upper/lower/number password. Can they? How would having my own account > help?
Anyone with physical access to your machine can get root access regardless of what the password is and whether it's locked (unless you take some fairly extreme measures). But I don't see how having an extra user account helps avoid this. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
