Re: Password protecting grub

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Password protecting grub
Date	2016-03-16 13:50 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 01:27:40PM +0100, jdd wrote:
> Le 16/03/2016 13:16, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit :
> >On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:39 PM, jdd <jdd@dodin.org
> ><mailto:jdd@dodin.org>> wrote:
> >
> >    Le 16/03/2016 12:37, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit :
> >
> >        " set superusers="root"
> >            password root rootpassword
> >
> >
> >    if it's a bash command, it should be "passwd", not "password"
> >
> >    jdd
> >
> >
> >Tried! Didn't work.
> >
> >Regards
> well... it may be simply a variable for grub. I never used it.
> 
> I guess you read this page or some similar:
> 
> http://superuser.com/questions/488275/grub-2-password-protection-in-debian
> 
> may be insert "echo message" lines to see where is the problem exactly?

If I understand it correctly, the stdout of these scripts end up
as a command stream for grub. So echo might be the wrong idea.

Perhaps echo to stderr...

regards
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Thread

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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