[mdlug] Password of DEATH

[Carl T. Miller]

Garry Stahl wrote:
> Suggestion, a second password that if entered goes nuclear on the hard
> drive deleting the thing wholesale without further action.  Better yet
> it boots to a croot jail screen while deleting eveything in the Home
> partition (You do have a separate home partition, right)
>
> Is this doable with ah average Linux distro?

Sure.  You could create another account and set it up
so that it would wipe everything in the /home directory.

The only problem is a chicken and egg thing.  In order
to login, the disk has to be unencrypted.  And if it
is unencrypted they don't need to login to access it.

So if you were serious about this, you'd encrypt the
partitions you're interested in protecting.  This would
protect you providing that they didn't make a backup
of the harddrive first.

c