Prohibiting selected users from booting into Windows

Tom Legrady legrady-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu May 13 05:17:08 UTC 2004


Grub can require a password, can't it?

Tom

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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