From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Menu locks / password authentication
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:53:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090227205327.GA32242@thorin> (raw)
It's funny, we're all discussing about performing security measurements in
GRUB and nobody mentioned that our user interface lacks even the most basic
lock mechanism :-)
Perhaps this would be a good time to retake the discussion on implementing
an equivalent to "lock" and "password" commands. I think I even sent a patch
a while ago!
Vesa, do you still think we should design an extensible framework for
authentication before we do anything else? I think it'd be interesting if
we could implement the lock/password paradigm, even if later it would be
replaced, since our users commonly need this, and it's blocking the
transition from GRUB Legacy.
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
next reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-27 20:53 Robert Millan [this message]
2009-03-03 15:32 ` Menu locks / password authentication Vesa Jääskeläinen
2009-03-04 21:04 ` Robert Millan
2009-03-08 22:14 ` Michał Radomski
2009-03-09 7:16 ` phcoder
2009-03-09 10:49 ` Michał Radomski
2009-03-09 10:57 ` phcoder
2009-03-09 20:53 ` Michał Radomski
2009-03-09 22:37 ` phcoder
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