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Re: Menu locks / password authentication
From: |
Vesa Jääskeläinen |
Subject: |
Re: Menu locks / password authentication |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:32:40 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) |
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.
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