From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MV4tM-0001Nk-LA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:40:00 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MV4tK-0001MQ-TF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:39:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MV4tG-0001IE-1O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:39:58 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58921 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MV4tF-0001I1-QX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:39:53 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:60195) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MV4tF-00032B-2G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:39:53 -0400 Received: from [85.180.49.97] (e180049097.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.49.97]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKv5w-1MV4tD4Aev-000lJ2; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:39:52 +0200 From: Felix Zielcke To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <153689213.20090605201753@gmail.com> References: <20090605173640.GW7367@riva.ucam.org> <153689213.20090605201753@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:40:41 +0200 Message-Id: <1248619241.25072.19.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.27.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18ieyFmgsAYQAelZMZy/Fwukp5IgVlRXq/IN3q E+ScGUR6fg5XSXYWmJUZ1Px5gSDYMyjUmYGtuIu7wKkAUjmzDL 5c21r18oTzGtoEshDTiqA== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Re[2]: 'password' command in GRUB 2? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:39:59 -0000 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. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer