securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 11:05 -0400, Anonyma wrote:
> I know that anyone who can get into a computer can make it insecure
> (by putting the hard drive in another machine or taking the mo/board
> battery out to clear the bios password), but what are the steps I can
> realistically take to make a computer in a shared office secure?  I
> can only think of these two:
> 
> 1. set a BIOS password
> 
> 2. set a GRUB password so no-one else can boot it into single-user
>    mode
> 
> Anything else?

Physically lock the box away, either in a cupboard, or in a metal frame
that has a lock which you open with a key

alan