Comments on: How To Password Protect GRUB Entries (Linux)

By: sensiguard

sensiguard — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:57:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing with us .very informative and interesting …keep posting

By: James the 1st

James the 1st — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:56:27 +0000

Two comments:

1. Varun Kashyap, the author, made it pretty clear this was to prevent would-be family and friend would-be gurus from messing where you don’t want messing. It’s certainly not to prevent a knowledgeable cracker from getting in.
2.He also made it fairly clear to do some intelligent backups before getting in to this.

Nice job…

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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:02:39 +0000

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By: vickey

vickey — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:29:58 +0000

Check the password you have entered. I think the error represents that.

By: delhi

delhi — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:48:31 +0000

sir i am facing one problem. if i boot then i will get error msg
such as Error 32:Must be authenticated
Press any key to continue…

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By: JBu92

JBu92 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:14:54 +0000

That works if you put the password on each individual entry, anyways, I’m not sure if it works w/ the lock feature.

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By: JBu92

JBu92 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:39:40 +0000

Actually, it’s much simpler than that, you can simply hit e (I think it’s w, whichever one allows you to edit the boot options) and delete the password line. Wish I’d have known that BEFORE I messed up my md5 hash (forgot the $, lol).

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By: hydtech

hydtech — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:29:50 +0000

hmm, what if someone manages to bypass or replace the Grub bootloader? then the password lock wouldn’t matter.