Stroganoff
January 6th, 2006, 09:52 AM
Hello,
maybe you want the user to enter a password in order to boot the Recovery Mode or your secondary OS. You have to set that password in the /boot/grub/menu.lst - for higher security you should crypt your password with md5.
The usual way does not work in Breezy: In a terminal run grub-md5-crypt, enter your desired password twice and copy the generated crypt-hash into the menu.lst, for example:title Kubuntu (Kernel 2.6.12-9-386) - Recovery Mode
password --md5 $1$HSX1$JYNyfBY0pVizk5kyMQOqn/
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
bootNow reboot and try to start the protected boot-option, enter your password and you'll see: "Authentication failure".
grub-md5-crypt seems to have a bug in Breezy. You need to take a different approach to generate the crypt-hash of your desired password.
Reboot your machine and enter the grub-menu. Now press the "C"-key on your keyboard to enter the command line of grub. Type:md5cryptEnter your desired password and take some pen/paper to write the generated hash down. Now boot up Ubuntu, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and paste the new hash into the correct line.
That's it. I would like to thank Joe Smith (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/09/msg00177.html).
maybe you want the user to enter a password in order to boot the Recovery Mode or your secondary OS. You have to set that password in the /boot/grub/menu.lst - for higher security you should crypt your password with md5.
The usual way does not work in Breezy: In a terminal run grub-md5-crypt, enter your desired password twice and copy the generated crypt-hash into the menu.lst, for example:title Kubuntu (Kernel 2.6.12-9-386) - Recovery Mode
password --md5 $1$HSX1$JYNyfBY0pVizk5kyMQOqn/
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
bootNow reboot and try to start the protected boot-option, enter your password and you'll see: "Authentication failure".
grub-md5-crypt seems to have a bug in Breezy. You need to take a different approach to generate the crypt-hash of your desired password.
Reboot your machine and enter the grub-menu. Now press the "C"-key on your keyboard to enter the command line of grub. Type:md5cryptEnter your desired password and take some pen/paper to write the generated hash down. Now boot up Ubuntu, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and paste the new hash into the correct line.
That's it. I would like to thank Joe Smith (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/09/msg00177.html).