CentOS - Jan 2008 - md5 passwords?

On a C4.4 system, I want to add md5 passwords for the grub boot menu to 
prevent users from making selections other than the default boot options.

I also want to add md5 passwords when attempting single user mode boots 
(may be answered by first request).

The same for C5 systems.


Thanks.

Scott

Use grub-md5-crypt to generate the md5 hash.
After edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and insert password --md5 your_hash_here
With this option users couldn't edit grub options, so they couldn't
neither boot in single user because they should provide the password
in this case.


On Jan 12, 2008 6:01 AM, Scott Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu>
wrote:
> On a C4.4 system, I want to add md5 passwords for the grub boot menu to
> prevent users from making selections other than the default boot options.
>
> I also want to add md5 passwords when attempting single user mode boots
> (may be answered by first request).
>
> The same for C5 systems.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
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> On a C4.4 system, I want to add md5 passwords for the grub boot menu to 
> prevent users from making selections other than the default boot options.
>
> I also want to add md5 passwords when attempting single user mode boots
(may
> be answered by first request).
>
> The same for C5 systems.
<http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/security-guide/s1-wstation-boot-sec.html>