dfw,
That is possible on any linux, though none that I have ever worked with does so out of the box. Usually you have to shange sudoers and the ssh config file.
I’m a relative Linux newbie, pretty much worked with MS. But we just got new workstations with Ubuntu installed, I also have dual boot w/Windows and Ubuntu on my personal laptop.
The one thing that bothers me about Ubuntu, and I even remember another Freeper mentioning this, is that for some reason, my laptop heats up more significantly when running under Ubuntu. I don’t know why, or if it’s something in the BIOS is need to set. If I close my laptop with XP, and put the laptop away for awhile, it will be cool when I open it back it, but with Ubuntu, it will stay hot, even when it is hibernating.