Adding a "duress" password with PAM Duress

Posted Aug 31, 2021 14:31 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Adding a "duress" password with PAM Duress by gdt
Parent article: Adding a "duress" password with PAM Duress

> A duress password need not do anything dramatic or illegal -- a contemporaneous record that an act was done under duress is itself useful when seeking to have those acts reversed or to be evidence of your intent during those acts.

Some burglar alarms have a code that shuts off the alarm system, but sends an alert to the police as if the alarm had been set off. Useful if burglars have kidnapped an employee to force them to disable the alarm.

It also alerts police to the fact it's a hostage burglary, not just a break-in ...

Cheers,
Wol