I guess this is more of a general linux question than a fedora one, but since I use fedora...
A friend of mine (a Windows afficionado, but not experienced with linux), and I were talking about recent examples where folk were required by the court to provide the password for their laptop. That lead to a beer-induced thought problem: In linux, is it possible to dictate two different actions upon login with different passwords? For instance, given an encrypted file dat.txt, could one have a login such that: login: billo Password: Password1 Action: bring up shell login: billo Password: Password2 Action: delete dat.txt, then bring up shell Assume some arbitrary level of encryption. I guess with just file encryption (e.g. dat.gpg) it's not a loging problem. So assume there's encryption of the home directory or of the /home partition. I couldn't think of any. There are a thousand ways to delete a file on login, of course, but I couldn't think of a way to accept two different passwords. The closest I could come up with was to have two different accounts with the same userid but different usernames in /etc/password, with a different initial startup for each. But that would provide two different usernames... billo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
