we should set a grub password by default
(``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Ubuntu at BUGabundo.net
Wed May 16 11:22:04 UTC 2007
On 5/16/07, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
>
> So how feasible it would be for grub to accept the passphrase of any
> admin user, rather than having its own? That would be weird in the
> sense that the admin accounts are Ubuntu-specific, whereas grub is in
> theory controlling access to multiple OSes. But it would save
> subjecting people to an extra step in the installer, and it would make
> the grub passphrase no longer a headache.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Matthew Paul Thomas
> http://mpt.net.nz/
>
Is is so hard to just run:
"sudo passwd root"
after the fisrt boot, while configuring everything else??
I do it all the time, and after this simple step, I dont have even to
bother about a password on grub.
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