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Bug 1406150

Summary:	Setting grub boot loader password is out of date.
Product:	[Retired] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	Patrick Meehan <pm.vmail>
Component:	system-administrator's-guide	Assignee:	Stephen Wadeley <swadeley>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Fedora Docs QA <docs-qa>
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Version:	devel	CC:	pbokoc, swadeley
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Description Patrick Meehan 2016-12-19 20:43:45 UTC

Description of problem:
The information on setting a superuser and password for grub2 is out of date in the System Administrators Guide, as it does not take into account the predefined 'root' superuser. All that a user needs to do to enable this superuser is to execute the grub2-setpassword utility, which will prompt the user for a password. An encrypted password will be placed in the /boot/grub2/user.cfg file, which only the system's 'root' account can access.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 25 (possibly earlier also).

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Comment 1 Petr Bokoc 2024-05-31 13:10:22 UTC

Migrated to https://gitlab.com/fedora/docs/fedora-linux-documentation/fedora-linux-sysadmin-guide/-/issues/23.