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Instead of prompting for both a grub password and later the root password, anaconda should combine the two. Rationale: 1) There are *five* screens having to do with configuring the boot loader in anaconda (in text mode at least). This is about four too many -- in cases where reasonable defaults can be picked, they should be. 3) Having a grub password set by default is a good thing. It means that assuming decent physical/hardware security, getting root access to the box is at least more than trivial. 2) Prompting for two distinct high-security-system-level passwords during the install is confusing to many users. 4) Since knowing the grub password can give root-level access (init=/bin/sh, for example), there's not a large gain in having them distinct in most cases. 5) Which is lucky, because many people set them to the same thing anyway. It would make sense to further do something to *keep* the passwords sync'd -- the best way would be a PAM module, but I suppose something that ran at system shutdown could also work (since the grub password is only relevant at boot time anyway).
We're going to collapse many of these screens in the next release so that will alleviate some of the problems work flow-wise. As for distribution policy of setting the grub password to the root password, I don't personaly think its a good default. But it isn't my call. Will reassign so those controlling the distribution can have final say.
I'd rather keep it as a separate entry.
Ok. Do you mind sharing the reasoning behind that? Especially given point #4 above? Thanks!