[Trisquel-users] Re : Unable to boot Trisquel 6.0 from GRUB

[magicbanana]

Calm down. The password is required to *edit* GRUB's configuration from GRUB  
itself. Not to boot a kernel. Notice that editing GRUB's configuration is the  
easiest way to get root's privileges: just add the keyword "single" to the  
boot line. However, and as I wrote, GRUB's password is not much of a  
security. You only need a live system to read or remove this password. GNU  
GRUB's documentation agrees:
By default, the boot loader interface is accessible to anyone with physical  
access to the console: anyone can select and edit any menu entry, and anyone  
can get direct access to a GRUB shell prompt. For most systems, this is  
reasonable since anyone with direct physical access has a variety of other  
ways to gain full access, and requiring authentication at the boot loader  
level would only serve to make it difficult to recover broken systems.

Again, I invite anybody who wants to get both side of the discussions to read  
this thread.