Bug 1406150 - Setting grub boot loader password is out of date.
Summary: Setting grub boot loader password is out of date.
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-administrator's-guide
Version: devel
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Stephen Wadeley
QA Contact: Fedora Docs QA
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Reported: 2016-12-19 20:43 UTC by Patrick Meehan
Modified: 2016-12-19 20:43 UTC (History)
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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The information on setting a superuser and password for grub2 is out of date in the System Administrators Guide, as it does not take into account the predefined 'root' superuser.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.

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Fedora 25 (possibly earlier also).

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