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Re: Password protecting grub

From jdd <jdd@dodin.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Password protecting grub
Date 2016-03-16 18:00 +0100
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Le 16/03/2016 17:21, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit :

> That's why I want to have GRUB password. Please tell some other way, you
> know or you have tried.

such thing is only useful to prevent (young) child or random people to 
make inadvertent damage, because any real attacker can defeat such pass 
in a snap. BIOS pass have all backdoors one can find on the net.

the only effective way to protect your computer is encrypting the partitions

jdd

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Password protecting grub Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-03-16 12:40 +0100
  Re: Password protecting grub jdd <jdd@dodin.org> - 2016-03-16 13:10 +0100
    Re: Password protecting grub Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-03-16 13:20 +0100
      Re: Password protecting grub jdd <jdd@dodin.org> - 2016-03-16 13:30 +0100
        Re: Password protecting grub <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-03-16 13:50 +0100
  Re: Password protecting grub <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-03-16 13:30 +0100
  Re: Password protecting grub David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-03-16 15:30 +0100
    Re: Password protecting grub Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-03-16 17:30 +0100
      Re: Password protecting grub arian <debian@semioptimal.net> - 2016-03-16 17:40 +0100
      Re: Password protecting grub jdd <jdd@dodin.org> - 2016-03-16 18:00 +0100
        Re: Password protecting grub Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2016-03-16 18:50 +0100
          Re: Password protecting grub Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 07:30 +0100
            Re: Password protecting grub David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-03-17 18:00 +0100
              Re: Password protecting grub Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 14:40 +0100
                Re: Password protecting grub David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-03-18 16:30 +0100
          Re: Password protecting grub Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-03-17 17:10 +0100
            Re: Password protecting grub Martin Smith <lists@rakupottery.org.uk> - 2016-03-17 18:10 +0100
              Re: Password protecting grub Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 18:40 +0100
      Re: Password protecting grub Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-03-17 17:10 +0100

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