Bug 41852 - /etc/lilo.conf permission (and boot password)
Summary: /etc/lilo.conf permission (and boot password)
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: lilo
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Doug Ledford
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-05-22 16:07 UTC by Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-05-31 14:48:34 UTC
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Description Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2001-05-22 16:07:18 UTC 
I suggest to change the default permission of /etc/lilo.conf to be 0600
instead
of 0644, because /sbin/lilo complains when user tries to use the boot
password
in lilo.conf with default permission.
I would also appreciate if Red Hat Linux installer can set up the boot
password
for new users (and add the "restricted" keyword to lilo.conf).
Comment 1 Daniel Roesen 2001-05-31 14:48:30 UTC 
Good idea IMHO. Thought of that but forgot to file in Bugzilla...
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2002-06-04 06:26:08 UTC 
The installer will allow you to setup grub passwords now and will properly set
the permissions on the file if you set up a password.  Also, anaconda/up2date
will preserve a password and permissions if they are already set
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