On Nov 12, 2007 2:15 PM, Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 14:06 +0800, Nicolas Deschildre wrote:
[...] > > For the simplest installations, GRUB could perhaps read /etc/shadow and > accept any user's password -- but that would be error-prone, open to > exploit, and wouldn't support the kinds of installations you talk about > later in this thread: corporate environments which often use centralised > authentication. You're right, I overlooked that. And adding Jan Claeys' good remark on the keyboard layout, I'm now convinced that password protecting grub is not good by default. Thanks for your comments. This is EOT for me. Nicolas -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
