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?? HTH User Iam <div>On 7/6/06, Anonyma <<a href="mailto:anon-bounces@deuxpi.ca">anon-bounces@deuxpi.ca</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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? -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>