Bug#708181: Workaround

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:36:17PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:34:50 +0100 Kim Rydhof Thor Hansen wrote:
> > I was also bitten by this bug, the problem it that the default
> > behaviour for menus with no security defined has changed from being
> > unrestricted to being restricted if some users are defined.
> > 
> > My workaround is to make the "Simple" default selection unrestricted like this:
> [...]
> 
> I prepared a more general patch (against grub2/2.00-22) that lets the
> user add options to the simple menu entry and to the advanced submenu
> and menu entries.

Please rebase your patch against current upstream git and send it
upstream first; I don't think it's a good idea to apply configuration
patches of this kind that haven't been accepted upstream, as it might
well lead to compatibility problems in future.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]