On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:29:37PM -0700, Claude Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Cheryl L. Southard wrote: > > [*]There's a different bootloader, GRUB, available which I think we will > [*]eventually transition over to for security reasons. I didn't really like > [*]that clear-text password in lilo.conf, and GRUB will allow us to have > [*]an md5 encrypted password. The ks.cfg file now has a "bootloader" > [*]option to specify which bootloader to use and other bootloader options. > > In 7.1 Kickstarts, --iscrypted works. Use it all the time. Now, there > was a nasty MD5+--iscrypted interaction in 6.2, but in 7.1 it works > beautifully. Check the Errata on both. > > Claude Johnson Cheryl was talking about the LILO (bootloader) password, not the root password. Ajay
