Hi

What about splitting the password in two parts??

The application guru will only know the first 4 letters and the admin only the 
last 4 letters...

Does that makes sense??

Cheers,
Thomas

Am Donnerstag, 4. August 2005 13:22 schrieb Ken Foskey:
> Got this one today, strange one:
>
> "Do you know if it is possible to setup a Linux redhat server to require
> two passwords to gain root access? The responsibilities for the server
> are going to be split over two different teams and we don't want either
> to have root access without the other team knowing about it. Please let
> me know if you can come up with something."
>
> Basically they would like to set up the machine so that it requires two
> people to  sign in to root, an application guru and an administrator.
> If anything is destroyed then they are both accountable as they look
> over each others shoulders.
>
> Anyone ever done something like that?
>
> --
> Ken Foskey
> OpenOffice.org developer

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