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Diffstat (limited to 'main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf b/main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf index 6c83349d4e..947dfde2a4 100644 --- a/main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf +++ b/main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf @@ -49,3 +49,12 @@ xen_opts=dom0_mem=256M # if you download and install /boot/memtest, then if HDT is present it will use it, else a separate # menu entry will be auto-generated for memtest + +# optional passwd +# you can generate a MD5 password using: mkpasswd --salt=yy --method=md5 +# you can generate a SHA1 password using: printf '$4$%s$%s$\n' xxxxxx $(printf xxxxxxpass | openssl sha1 -binary | base64 | sed 's/=$//') +# where yy are two "salt" characters from the set [./a-zA-Z0-9], and xxxxxx can be a longer "salt" from the same set +# if you assign a password, you should make this file world-unreadable +# if a password is assigned, the menu entries can't be edited at boot time, and HDT if present is password-protected +# you can also include "MENU PASSWD" in any custom entries you have in /etc/update-extlinux.d/ +password='' |