Hi,
I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has
Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password
is entered. I have tried the password feature in grub but it does not
implement this feature. It implements changing boot time kernel
options, but not OS
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Mark Knecht wrote:
NOTE: I currently do this be editing the grub file itself but I'm
looking for something more sophisticated since I'd like my wife to be
able to boot Windows but not my son.
Have windows users, then. Let your son boot it, but not
On 7/30/06, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Mark Knecht wrote:
NOTE: I currently do this be editing the grub file itself but I'm
looking for something more sophisticated since I'd like my wife to be
able to boot Windows but not
Mark Knecht wrote:
On 7/30/06, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Mark Knecht wrote:
NOTE: I currently do this be editing the grub file itself but I'm
looking for something more sophisticated since I'd like my wife to be
able
El Domingo, 30 de Julio de 2006 16:09, Mark Knecht escribió:
Hi,
I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has
Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password
is entered. I have tried the password feature in grub but it does not
implement this
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has
Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password
is entered. I have tried the password feature in grub but it does not
implement this
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:59:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has
Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password
is entered. I have tried
Mark Knecht wrote:
My son is
a Windows user for playing games. I do not want him using Windows when
he chooses since the gaming gets in the way of school, as it should
for any healthy 14 year old boy. ;-)
If you're using an NT-based version of windows (NT4, 2000, XP, or one of
those fancy
On 7/30/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mark,
Check the official gentoo security guide (docs section).
...
2.b. Password protecting GRUB
GRUB supports two different ways of adding password protection to your
boot loader. The first uses plain text, while the latter uses md5+salt
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:49:42PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 7/30/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks very much. It's a great solution for what I need.
It does limit the use of Windows, which is what I wanted, until the
password is typed in. Once typed in it also seems
On 7/30/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:49:42PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 7/30/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks very much. It's a great solution for what I need.
It does limit the use of Windows, which is what I wanted, until
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