On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 03:58, Kaushik Ghose wrote:
> Hi,
> I disagree with the point that lilo is worse than grub because of this.
> changing permissions on /etc/lilio.conf resolves this issue.
> RH8.0 at least comes with default root only rw permission for lilio.conf
Well wrong again. LILO stores the password in lilo.conf without any
encryption. GRUB, on the other hand allows MD5 encryption of the
password placed in grub.conf. Hence, even if grub.conf is readable, no
one can read the password.
> -kg
/Sumeet
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