From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030313 Galeon/1.3.4 Description of problem: <quote from the docs> 4.2.2.1. Password Protecting GRUB Finally, remember that the /boot/grub/grub.conf file is world-readable by default. It is a good idea to change this, as it has no affect on the functionality of GRUB, by typing the following command as root: chmod 600 /boot/grub/grub.conf </quote> But grub.conf in RH 9 already has 600 permissions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhl-sg-en-9-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read rhl-sg-en 2. 3. Additional info:
So it is! Great news. This is a new thing and a good thing. I have corrected the posted an errata, fixed the source, and fixed the online HTML. Johnray