Re: Menu locks / password authentication

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

Robert Millan wrote:
> 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.

I think that most important thing at this time is to match needed
functionality with GRUB legacy. So just make it clean and perhaps think
a bit about how it can be easily extended :).

I think there was some hash algorithms posted previously that could be
used for this.