Re: [gentoo-user] grub passwords - how do I limit OS selection?

["John J. Foster" <Gentoo-User@festus.150ml.com>]

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On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:59:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has
> > Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password
> > is entered. I have tried the password feature in grub but it does not
> > implement this feature. It implements changing boot time kernel
> > options, but not OS choice as far as I can tell.
> > 
> >   I also tried adding the hiddenmenu option in grub but it seems that
> > with hiddenmenu turned on grub never accepts a password.
> > 
> >   Is there a way to implement what I need? If you can provide an
> > example that would be great.
> > 
> > NOTE: I currently do this be editing the grub file itself but I'm
> > looking for something more sophisticated since I'd like my wife to be
> > able to boot Windows but not my son.
> > 
> > Thanks all,
> > Mark
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Unless I'm reading your needs wrong, I think you need the "lock" command
> as well as the "password" command.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#password
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#lock
oops - forgot one
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Security
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