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Ctrl-Alt-Del helps keep your password secure...

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Calum:
linux is at least as inconsistent amongst its graphical apps, only macs appear to be watertight enough so as not to have a complaint about this sort of thing. (haven't tried BSD or RiscOS or BeOS or anything like that so i can't actually make that last statement with any conviction.)

beltorak0:
You mean when I press "Control + Alt + Delete" On my linux box, I'm not really pressing those keys!!!  OMG!!! I've been lied to all this time!!!
< ahem >

and yes, it would be possible to write a script that would log the admin's password, log out, then log back in as that admin.  Problem: you might have to have admin perms to do it.  Use: change the password to what you want, run the script to catch the admin's real password, the script then changes it back -- the clueless admin won't notice that he has just given his password out.

Key loggers can be hard-installed.  A small device no longer than your pinky that plugs into the the keyboard slot and has a receptacle for the keyboard.  Holds a few megs of kepresses, accessed via a web browser.  I don't remember the company tho.

As this recent forum shutdown clearly states:
Anyone Who Has Physical Access To A Machine Can Compromise That Machine.

-t.

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