Re: Be careful out there kids....
Yes, I was actually threatened with that where I work for refusing to do something my then tool of a manager wanted done but which wasn't actually possible.
I was threatened with a disciplinary because I refused to give my manager the root passwords to a set of production machines that were owned by a completely different group[1].
Vic.
[1] I'd done some work for them beforehand, and they hadn't changed the root passwords yet. He thought he should be able to log into these machines on a whim...