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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On 7/30/06, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <buanzo@××××××××××.ar> wrote: |
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>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
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>> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> > NOTE: I currently do this be editing the grub file itself but I'm |
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>> > looking for something more sophisticated since I'd like my wife to be |
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>> > able to boot Windows but not my son. |
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>> Have windows users, then. Let your son boot it, but not use it. |
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> Arturo, |
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> Hi. Thanks for the response. Not an acceptable strategy. My son is |
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> a Windows user for playing games. I do not want him using Windows when |
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> he chooses since the gaming gets in the way of school, as it should |
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> for any healthy 14 year old boy. ;-) |
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> What I really want is when the machine turns on he gets Linux |
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> unless myself or my wife grants him access to Windows. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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Hi Mark, |
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Check the official gentoo security guide (docs section). |
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2.b. Password protecting GRUB |
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GRUB supports two different ways of adding password protection to your |
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boot loader. The first uses plain text, while the latter uses md5+salt |
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encryption. |
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Haven't used it though. |
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HTH.Rumen |
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