"I plan to work on..." for FC5

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

søn, 12.06.2005 kl. 08.37 skrev Panu Matilainen:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 13:13 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> >> So all I have to do is steal your laptop and phone, and I've got
> >> access to all your data ? The auto-login bit scares me a little.
> >> Having it lock the screen if you wander off I like the sound of
> >> though.
> >
> > Who runs a password-protected bootloader? You steal my laptop and you've
> > got access to all my data anyway.
> 
> That's why people encrypt their laptops, password protected bootloader 
> wont help at all by itself.
> 
>  	- Panu -

Password protected grub makes sence when you have denied use of boot
disks through BIOS, locked the BIOS down, physically locked a machine
down so the BIOS can't be reset. Then the grub password makes sure
nobody can boot into single user mode or use grub promt to boot
removable media.