Re: Re[2]: 'password' command in GRUB 2?

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Freitag, den 05.06.2009, 20:17 +0200 schrieb Julien RANC:
> Hello,
> 
> >> Previous attempts I have found:
> >>
> >>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-08/msg00034.html
> >>    "[PATCH] password command implementation", Julien RANC, August 2007
> >>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-05/msg00135.html
> >>    "[RFC] Grub2 lock and password implementation", Julien Ranc, May 2008
> > I don't know if he has copyright assignment. If he doesn't, copyright
> > assignment takes a lot of time
> 
> I have no copyright assignment. If there is anything I can do to help
> integrating that feature, please tell me, as I see no problem in that,
> and I have currently no plan to continue this work.
> 
> If I remember correctly, I had improved on the first patch to include
> most of the remarks. I'll have a look if I can find back the modified
> patch, and send it to the list for anyone to have it.
> 

What is with his patch? Shouldn't we just send him an assigment?
Adrian (the author of SGD) just mentioned on IRC that everyone tells him
grub2 won't be used widely by distros without password support.

So it seems this is important to people.
I try to look into this but I have the feeling that I'm not really the
right person for this. Especially when we want something complete and
extensible etc.

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Felix Zielcke
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