thanks tim.
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From: Tim
To: Community support for Fedora users
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:07:11 +0930
Subject: Re: Re: Help required
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 00:46 +0530, Pallav Jain wrote:
>> This password will only be used within the grub menu. You c
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 00:46 +0530, Pallav Jain wrote:
>> This password will only be used within the grub menu. You can, of
>> course, use the same password in more than one place. But the MD5
>> crypted version of it will be different.
>
> (1). Does it mean that the grub is secured now, after im
thanks that i am seeing the new things and one thing is for sure is that
Fedora and open source really is much much above windows in all respect. it
is as if windows is not at all secured with respect to fedora. tim, i got
your points but still the issues are there, which always remain or
flourishe
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 17:39 +0530, Pallav Jain wrote:
> If that is the password for only Grub at the booting, does it
> guarantee the security of the hard-disk?
No, grub passwords only affect what GRUB can do. If you can boot some
other way, you bypass it. Or you could remove the drive and read
more
simple for a new user like Tim did.
thx.
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From: kalinix
To: Community support for Fedora users
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:28:15 +0300
Subject: Re: Re: Help required
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 00:21 +0530, Pallav Jain wrote:
thx tim, your method is too goo
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 00:21 +0530, Pallav Jain wrote:
> 1. i edited the grub.conf file, by adding in it the line:
>
> password --md5 $xxx/
>
> just above the first title section and below 'hiddenmenu' line. (where
> xxx=Envrypted password)
>
Yes, that's a suitable place for it to go.
> but is
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 00:21 +0530, Pallav Jain wrote:
> thx tim, your method is too good for securing the data. but i have som
> doubts which are as follows:
>
> as you mentioned, i did, but frankly speaking, i am new user, so
> facing much problem. the issues are as follows:
>
> 1. i edited the
thx tim, your method is too good for securing the data. but i have som
doubts which are as follows:
as you mentioned, i did, but frankly speaking, i am new user, so facing much
problem. the issues are as follows:
1. i edited the grub.conf file, by adding in it the line:
password --md5 $xxx/
jus
