Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote: > > 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.
Why? > 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. If the file is not readable (because of properly set permissions) then it doesn't matter if the password is not encrypted. - Manas Laha -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
