securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

[Derek Broughton]

User Iam wrote:

> I fail to understand why this is a problem in a shared office...
> 
> All work related files should be stored on the corporate/business hard
> drive.
> It isn't your.. Belongs to the company..
> 
> You shouldn't have any personal data on this machine. Not yours!!
> 
> The local computer guys may need to do company stuff on your computer
> overnight..
> 
> Unless I don't understand the situation??

probably you don't.  You don't know how large the office is - perhaps they
don't have any more secure place/machine to keep corporate files.  My
office, in 15 years of running my own company, has never been big enough to
have space that isn't open to all the employees (at peak, 6).  You don't
_know_ that the machine is not his - in my office, naturally, all of the
machines _are_ mine.  And even in a large corporate setting, I would fully
expect that the "local computer guys" would not be doing "stuff" on my
computer overnight without warning me.  Their "stuff" is what breaks the
system so that I can't do _my_ "stuff".
-- 
derek