-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:07:33PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I wish to password protect grub bootloader. I tried the steps available on > online manuals as of RedHat, Ubuntu, etc. All experiments were on a > VirtualBox machine, so my system remains safe. However, I didn't get > success. > Every time I write the line to the config file and run update-grub, I get > the response > "password : command not found". > > I made experiments with the following files: > /etc/grub.d/00_header > /etc/grub.d/40_custom > /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > adding > " set superusers="root" > password root rootpassword > " > or > " password mypassword " > or > " password --md5 $$$%#$ " > > different times. Each time, I had the same error generated.
Note that those files are shell scripts generating scripts for grub. I think you want the shell script outputting something like +---------------------- |set superusers="foo" |password foo verytopsecret +---------------------- to its standard output, so you'll want to add +---------------------- |cat <<EOF |set superusers="foo" |password foo verytopsecret |EOF +---------------------- to your /etc/grub.d/00_header. Rube Goldberg in action, but hey. I wonder what's in store with Grub3: write a Haskell program which outputs a shell program which outputs a Grub3 script? Hope that helps - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbpR4oACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaEgQCeKy5u+q+Zv7AIVK1Z2vQcHoHq s6MAnifV5eAFBhiI3AvHYY2U3T4f2mB2 =0KKO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
