>>>>> Erich Boleyn writes: >> The kind of password I was talking about was a simple `boot >> administrator password', like PC BIOSes have right now, not a Unix >> password.
EB> You could fix up the GRUB password feature easily enough. If the EB> file is unreadable by any other than root, then your problem is EB> essentially solved. This combined with disabling floppy booting EB> in the BIOS gives you a relatively secure system for lab-type EB> use. While on a walk today, I realized that it may be possible to add BIOS password support to GRUB, too. In other words, have GRUB's password either be hardcoded in the menu.lst file (as it is now), as well as offering a ``same as BIOS password'' feature. That would be nice for eliminating yet-another-password. I'll look into this, but I also wouldn't be surprised if BIOSes vary too much and are too proprietary to support such a feature. :( -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
