From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9iX-0007yF-EU for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:53:57 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9iU-0007vr-U1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:53:54 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9iS-0007vW-US for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:53:54 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47675 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9iS-0007vT-QZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:53:52 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:59405) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ld9iR-0006oD-Kl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:53:52 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ld9bE-0006gZ-4N for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:46:26 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ld9i3-0008OI-TC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:53:27 +0100 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:53:27 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20090227205327.GA32242@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Menu locks / password authentication 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: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:53:55 -0000 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."