Bug#584822: grub2: command password

2010-06-08 Thread Artificius
Colin Watson schrieb: On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 07:46:10PM +0200, Artificius wrote: Many thanks for your explanations, although they are a bit sophisticated... I had to make several trials until I succeeded. Saying "this will involve editing /etc/grub.d/10_linux" is misleading, as this file co

Bug#584822: grub2: command password

2010-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 07:46:10PM +0200, Artificius wrote: > Many thanks for your explanations, although they are a bit > sophisticated... I had to make several trials until I succeeded. Saying > "this will involve editing /etc/grub.d/10_linux" is misleading, as this > file contains a script sourc

Bug#584822: grub2: command password

2010-06-08 Thread Artificius
Hi, excuse me, please: The loss of CC in my last mail wasn't intentionally, but caused by using different OS-HD's. Normally I'm working with Lenny. In this case, however, I sent the mail with Squeeze, therefore I could'nt use the answering function and had to fill in the address by myself; sorry

Bug#584822: grub2: command password

2010-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
severity 584822 important retitle 584822 grub2: authentication documentation is inadequate thanks (CCing back to the bug, being careful to remove anything sensitive from your mail; please keep the bug in the CC list when replying, so that there's an audit trail.) On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:48:59A

Bug#584822: grub2: Command 'password' is still ignored in 'Squeeze' although provided.

2010-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:53:01PM +0200, Artificius wrote: > 'password' is ignored on every location of the file grub.cfg, > even in the last published version of 'Squeeze' (from 2010-06-06). Please attach your /boot/grub/grub.cfg (with any actual passwords blanked out, obviously, but I want to

Bug#584822: grub2: Command 'password' is still ignored in 'Squeeze' although provided.

2010-06-06 Thread Artificius
Package: grub2 Version: 1.98 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: causes serious data loss See http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/password.html and http://grub.enbug.org/CommandList (comparing GRUB Legacy with GRUB2) 'password' is ignored on every location of the file