Bug#545163: /etc/grub.d/10_linux: Re: grub-pc: no way to easily add password settings to grub.cfg

[Laurent Bigonville]

Package: grub-common
Version: 2.12-9
Followup-For: Bug #545163

Hello,

This is still a problem today.

In RHEL like system there is a script (grub2-setpassword) that makes it
easy for the user to set a password.

See: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/blob/rawhide/f/0028-Add-friendly-grub2-password-config-tool-985962.patch

Also by default they made the generated boot entries "unrestricted"

See: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/blob/rawhide/f/0022-Don-t-require-a-password-to-boot-entries-generated-b.patch

Apparently debian was doing the same before? (See: #1000854)

Can something be done here?

Kind regards,
Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.16-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  gettext-base        0.23.1-2
ii  libc6               2.41-12
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.205-2
ii  libefiboot1t64      38-3.1+b1
ii  libefivar1t64       38-3.1+b1
ii  libfreetype6        2.13.3+dfsg-1
ii  libfuse3-4          3.17.2-3
ii  liblzma5            5.8.1-1

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii  os-prober  1.83

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
ii  console-setup  1.240
ii  desktop-base   13.0.3
pn  grub-emu       <none>
pn  mtools         <none>
pn  multiboot-doc  <none>
ii  xorriso        1.5.6-1.2+b1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/grub.d/10_linux changed [not included]
/etc/grub.d/40_custom changed [not included]

-- no debconf information