søn, 12.06.2005 kl. 08.37 skrev Panu Matilainen: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 13:13 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > >> So all I have to do is steal your laptop and phone, and I've got > >> access to all your data ? The auto-login bit scares me a little. > >> Having it lock the screen if you wander off I like the sound of > >> though. > > > > Who runs a password-protected bootloader? You steal my laptop and you've > > got access to all my data anyway. > > That's why people encrypt their laptops, password protected bootloader > wont help at all by itself. > > - Panu - Password protected grub makes sence when you have denied use of boot disks through BIOS, locked the BIOS down, physically locked a machine down so the BIOS can't be reset. Then the grub password makes sure nobody can boot into single user mode or use grub promt to boot removable media. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
