On 03/12/2007, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The one problem I have with either /root or root as a role is what there
> is in the way of recovery options (on SPARC too eventually!) under very
> degraded conditions in the absence of being able to log in to the console
> directly as root.  There needs to be something - preferably not _requiring_
> a reboot, and certainly not involving a reboot off of removable media like
> CD/DVD.

Maintain a single local user account that is assigned the root role.
Give that user a ridiculously long password, kept in escrow by your IS
Security department. Now you have a guaranteed path in via the console
when everything else goes to pot.

-- 
Georgia: Why am I not doing what they're doing?
Rube: Because you're doing what you're doing. When it's time for you
to do something else you'll do that.
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