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On 7/30/06, John J. Foster <Gentoo-User@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:49:42PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > On 7/30/06, John J. Foster <Gentoo-User@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Thanks very much. It's a great solution for what I need. |
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> > It does limit the use of Windows, which is what I wanted, until the |
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> > password is typed in. Once typed in it also seems to allow changing |
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> > the boot time options on Linux, but in my son's case I'm not the least |
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> > bit worried he's going to try anything there. |
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> > |
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> Mark - from |
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> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Security |
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> You can also use the command password instead of lock. In this case the |
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> boot process will ask for the password and stop if it was entered |
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> incorrectly. Since the password takes its own PASSWORD argument this is |
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> useful if you want different passwords for different entries. |
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Festus, |
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Thanks. Even better! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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