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