Subject: Re: port-i386/12506: Request: password for input in bootselect
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Anne Bennett <anne@alcor.concordia.ca>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/30/2001 17:58:18
I asked:
>> I'm trying to set my machine so that it can boot unattended from
>> the default device and file, but so that some kind of authentication
>> is required before it is possible to specify different boot parameters.
>> I was hoping to find something in bootselect (the special MBR), but
>> according to the documentation there, there is no such facility.
and Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi> suggested:
> installboot(8):
> -p password
> If supported by the boot program, set the password which must be
> entered before the boot menu can be accessed.
My immediate reaction was embarrassment that I had somehow missed
that, since I thought I had read all of the manpages suggested by
"apropos boot".
Anyway, I tried this:
/usr/mdec/installboot -v -t 5 -p PASSWORD /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rsd0a
and the command responded (after its other verbosity):
installboot: no password support in bootblock
... so I'm still stuck. :-(
Anne.
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Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Analyst, IITS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
anne@alcor.concordia.ca +1 514 848-7606