Bug#584822: grub2: command password

[Artificius]

Hi,

excuse me, please: The loss of CC in my last mail wasn't intentionally,
but caused by using different OS-HD's. Normally I'm working with Lenny.
In this case, however, I sent the mail with Squeeze, therefore I
could'nt use the answering function and had to fill in the address by
myself; sorry!

Many thanks for your explanations, although they are a bit
sophisticated... I had to make several trials until I succeeded. Saying
"this will involve editing /etc/grub.d/10_linux" is misleading, as this
file contains a script source of bash commands which cannot changed
simply like any text. You'd rather give yet more clear hints that in
/boot/grub/grub.cfg the 'password' command[s] must positioned directly
before the 'menuentry' commands and that the 'menuentry' commands
normally should contain the '--users user-xy' option. Furthermore, it
would be helpful if the documentation contains a remark about the
necessarity to transport the changes in grub.cfg to the MBR by
'grub-install ...'.

As you can read in the Debian literature, too, the hole procedure
changing 'grub' isn't easy to find out. Therefore I propose to give the
users mainly explaining examples and generally much more information.
It's very meritorious that you are working on this topic. Again many
thanks for your support!

Sincerely,

Artificius