On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 03:09:37PM +1000, Colin Fee wrote:
Agreed. That's essentially the discussion we were having when where mucking around with grub; that to make that kind of edit you needed physical access and so any measures like grub passwords were superfluous.
not exactly superfluous, just fairly easy to defeat if you have unsupervised physical access to the machine. same as a BIOS password can be cleared by opening the case and removing the CMOS battery for a few minutes (or some motherboards have a CMOS erase button)
In your grub menu example above do the bootable floppy options point to a floppy image e.g. an iso, or to a real device?
both are 1.44MB freedos floppy images. i can't remember the last time i had an actual floppy drive installed in a computer (i still have a few lying around but i stopped bothering to install them years ago) craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>