Jeremy Katz wrote : > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 20:07 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > Small question/suggestion: > > By default, Anaconda doesn't require a grub password. > > A user must manually select "Use a bootloader password" in-order to set > > on up. > > Is there a specific reason for that? > > In general, if you have physical access to the machine, you've already > lost. We allow setting the boot loader password mainly to help people > who have taken other appropriate measures (password protecting the BIOS, > ensuring the boot order doesn't boot from removable media, case locks) I totally agree : A GRUB password is only useful to people who really know why they want it. Oh, and another obvious reason why not to set one by default would be because the keyboard layout in GRUB is US, so things get confusing pretty quickly for people with different layouts, especially if they put some non alphanumeric characters in the password ;-) (please correct me if this has changed nowadays...) Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) - Linux kernel 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 Load : 0.08 0.28 0.38 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
