From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] implement menu_lock
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:13:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802102113.01523.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080210130940.GA3879@thorin>
On Sunday 10 February 2008 14:09, Robert Millan wrote:
> Implement menu_lock. This is a variable that locks the menu when set.
>
> It can be used by users to lock the menu, although there's no way to
> authenticate users for unlocking it, yet (but the procedure would be
> independant from this interface).
I think this should be named differently. "menu_lock" sounds like freezing a
menu, but you also disable entering into the command line.
In GRUB Legacy, I used a variable "auth" to define the state of authorization
(you can have a look at stage2/stage2.c). Was it so bad?
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-10 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-10 13:09 [PATCH] implement menu_lock Robert Millan
2008-02-10 13:11 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-10 20:13 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2008-02-10 20:59 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-10 21:08 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-12 7:41 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2009-03-08 13:50 ` phcoder
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