On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Tim wrote:
Options for stanzas are read from within them, top to bottom. In this
> case, the first one sets the password, the second line halts further
> processing until the password is entered. Once entered, it would
> process the next two commands.
>
* *I di
On 01/09/2011 02:18 PM, Tim wrote:
> 13.2.10 password
>
>
> -- Command: password [`--md5'] passwd [new-config-file]
>
Well it seems to have changed in F14 which is different.
...
Thus, GRUB provides a "password" feature, so that only administrators
can start the interacti
Parshwa Murdia:
>>> password --md5 $differentpassword
Genes MailLists:
>Is -md5 documented ? When I check info grub I see
>
> password --encrypted
>
> where grub-crypt is suggested to be used to encrypt.
>
> grub-crypt indeed has an md5 option tho sha-512 seems to be the default.
Yes,
On 01/09/2011 06:56 AM, Tim wrote:
>>
>> password --md5 $differentpassword
>>
>
Is -md5 documented ? When I check info grub I see
password --encrypted
where grub-crypt is suggested to be used to encrypt.
grub-crypt indeed has an md5 option tho sha-512 seems to be the default.
(f14
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 11:56 +0100, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> But if a different password is required, we should enter it above the
> line
>
> title Memtest86+ (2.11)
>
> so that it looks:
>
> password --md5 $differentpassword
>
> title Memtest86+ (2.11)
>lock
>root (hd0,1)
>
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Tim wrote:
#boot=/dev/sda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> password --md5 $supercalifragilistic.
>
> title Fedora (2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686)
>lock
>root (hd0,1)
>kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 19:34 +1030, Tim wrote:
> In the grub.conf file, when there's a password and lock command above
> all the boot choices, they'll need to enter the password before they
> can do anything (pick a choice, temporarily edit what grub will do).
> It's where you place the lock command
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 13:32 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> which are just below the name of the OS in
> the /boot/grub/grub.conf file):-
>
> password --md5 $1$X58Kw/$v71Qlprzt8f4U9uOu46nk0
> lock
>
> and after that I press 'b' to boot without entering the encrypted
> password during the booting
hi,
As someone earlier let me know about the encrypting of passwords, I did the
following:
after becoming the root, used the command:
md5crypt
to get the encrypted string of passwords for using in /boot/grub/grub.conf
This is the password which is NOT the password of the user who logs-in. But
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