Re: [gentoo-user] grub passwords - how do I limit OS selection?

[John J. Foster]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:49:42PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 7/30/06, John J. Foster <Gentoo-User@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
>   Thanks very much. It's a great solution for what I need.
>
>   It does limit the use of Windows, which is what I wanted, until the
> password is typed in. Once typed in it also seems to allow changing
> the boot time options on Linux, but in my son's case I'm not the least
> bit worried he's going to try anything there.
>
Mark - from 

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Security

You can also use the command password instead of lock. In this case the
boot process will ask for the password and stop if it was entered
incorrectly. Since the password takes its own PASSWORD argument this is
useful if you want different passwords for different entries.

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