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I would recommend preventing anyone having root access to the server except those you trust entirely. If you have people that can justify a need to run certain commands as root, then you should look at the sudo command, freeware available from Sudo Main Page

Basically, if you can't trust them entirely, keep them off. What would mean they need root access anyway? Can they really justify full access or is it just laziness that they can't work out how to do something properly. You are allowing them to destory your server if they remove certain files, devices, shutdown, kill processes etc. etc.



I hope that this helps
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 
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boxfit(6x)							XScreenSaver manual							boxfit(6x)

NAME
boxfit - fills space with a gradient of growing boxes or circles. SYNOPSIS
boxfit [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window] [-root] [-delay usecs] [-count int] [-growby int] [-spacing int] [-border int] [-circles | -squares | -random] [-grab] [-peek] [-fps] DESCRIPTION
Packs the screen with growing boxes or circles, colored according to a horizontal or vertical gradient. The objects grow until they touch, then stop. When the screen is full, they shrink away and the process restarts. OPTIONS
-visual visual Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. -window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. -root Draw on the root window. -delay microseconds How much of a delay should be introduced between steps of the animation. Default 20000, or about 0.02 seconds. -count int How many boxes or circles to animate simultaneously; default 50. Smaller numbers yield larger boxes/circles. -growby int How many pixels the objects should grow by, each frame. Default 1. -spacing int How many pixels of space should be left between the objects. Default 1. -border int Thickness of the colored border around each object. Default 1. -circles | -squares | -random Draw circles, squares, or choose randomly (the default). -grab Normally it colors the boxes with a horizontal or vertical gradient. If -grab is specified, it will instead load a random image, and color the boxes according to the colors in that image. As the picture fills in, some features of the underlying image may become recognisable. When grabbing images, the image will be grabbed from the portion of the screen underlying the window, or from the system's video input, or from a random file on disk, as indicated by the grabDesktopImages, grabVideoFrames, and chooseRandomImages options in the ~/.xscreensaver file; see xscreensaver-demo(1) for more details. -peek This option says to briefly show you the underlying image before beginning. The default is not to show the unadulterated image at all. (This only has an effect when -grab is used.) -fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load. ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. SEE ALSO
X(1), xscreensaver(1) xscreensaver-demo(1), xscreensaver-getimage(1) COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. AUTHOR
Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> X Version 11 5.15 (28-Sep-2011) boxfit(6x)