Bug#708181: requests password to boot

[Francesco Poli]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:39:14 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote:

[...]
> Hello,
> I am also wondering what's the status of this bug.
> 
> It has been forwarded upstream with a patch on March 2014, but it seems
> to have received no reply from upstream yet.
> 
> Could someone urge upstream to review the patch and apply it, please?
> 
> This "all or nothing" support for GRUB passwords is really frustrating:
> I would like to restrict (with a password) the ability to edit menu
> entries, without restricting the ability to select the menu entries.
> As previously said, this is not currently possible (without locally
> patching /etc/grub.d/* stuff).
> 
> I really hope this annoying regression may be fixed soon.
> Thanks for your time!
> 
> Bye.

Once again, could someone urge upstream to review the patch and fix
this annoying regression, please?

Thanks for your time!
Bye.


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