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"Panic Password" on Linux

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Mar 15, 20261533 views
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I run Linux on my netbook with an encrypted home directory (decrypted when I log in). One idea I had (partly from Cory Doctorow's Little Brother) was to have a password that I could enter which would login to a fake user account while performing a command (e.g trashing the contents of the disk driv…

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Because your post was very general and lacking in detail, my answer has to be very general and lacking in detail. Many of these steps are going to be distribution-specific. In your situation, this is what I would do: Write a script that will perform…

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