Password-protect grub interactive commands (was: rationale of root access from boot)

[Jan Claeys]

Op zaterdag 10-11-2007 om 14:06 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Nicolas
Deschildre:
> But then, why not use this password feature by default to avoid anyone
> to edit boot parameter and become root?

In addition to what was mentioned already: GRUB only knows about plain
us keyboards, while many/most users probably have localised keyboard
layouts, causing problems to enter password correctly.  Even worse, some
characters that they have on their keyboard, and thus could be used in a
password, are simply unavailable for entering while in GRUB...


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Jan Claeys