[LINK] RFI: Multi-User Capability on User Machines

[andrew clarke]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:24:54PM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:

> As stated then no current system is multi-user since there are 2  
> problems:
> 
> 1) the super-user problem
> 2) the physical access problem.
> 
> With physical access you can always get all data on a disk.
> 
> The super-user problem is non-trivial.  Someone in the house (and  
> presumably an interested party) must have super-user privileges.

Probably an obvious statement, but it's conceivable that nobody in the
household knows the super-user/Administrator password.