Prohibiting selected users from booting into Windows

[Anton Markov]

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Here is something that may help. From /boot/grub/menu.conf:

## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive
# editing control (menu entry editor and command-line)  and entries
# protected by the command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
#      password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/

Not sure if this is what you want, but it seems to me that you can
password protect either that one Windows boot entry or your whole system.


Mel Seder wrote:
> Our kids are coming for a few days over the May long weekend.  They both are
> computer users and I don't want them running Windows on my PC.
> 
> Currently when the computer boots you can select Windows or Linux.  Is there
> some kind of autoexec I can put on windows that requires a password to
> continue.  If the password isn't keyed in I want the PC to either shut down
> (preferably) or go to grub's boot screen.
> 
> Any ideas?

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