* V Vasant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want this because there has been an increase in the number of
> hackings with systems here.Root passwords are changed and administrators
> are put in a piquant situation .So having another secret user will help me
Perhaps having your administrator set up the sudo package for you
would do the job.
,----[ from sudo man page ]
| sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the
| superuser (real and effective uid and gid are set to 0 and
| root's group as set in the passwd file respectively).
|
| sudo determines who is an authorized user by consulting
| the file /etc/sudoers. By giving sudo the -v flag a user
| can update the time stamp without running a command. The
| password prompt itself will also time out if the user's
| password is not entered with N minutes (again, this is
| defined at installation time and defaults to 5 minutes).
|
| If an unauthorized user executes sudo, mail will be sent
| from the user to the local authorities (defined at
| installation time).
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There are other ways of giving a user root permissions, but I don't
want to be the one to give you bad habits. :-)
> Also ,how do I set a password to impede the entry of somebody by using
> "linux single" ?
All you need to do is add a couple of lines to /etc/lilo.conf
man 5 lilo.conf (search for "password" & "restricted")
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