Prohibiting selected users from booting into Windows

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:51:01PM -0700, 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?

Add a password to the windows entry in grub (and if you are not using
grub as the primary boot loader, then what are you doing wrong? :)

Lennart Sorensen
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