GRUB Password

**anjanprasad** · 11-15-2004

Hi,

Please let me know how to setup linux grub password. I am using RHEL ver 1.3 WS

Regards,
Anjan

**Dolda2000** · 11-15-2004

First you need to encrypt your password. You can do that by running the "md5crypt" command from within the GRUB shell. Then you need to add a "password" command to grub.conf that uses that encrypted password, like this:

Code:

    GNU GRUB  version 0.94  &#40;640K lower / 3072K upper memory&#41;

 &#91; Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. &#93;

grub> md5crypt

Password&#58; ****
Encrypted&#58; $1$sVupd0$7KNtPDDeIN5D0V4zajLet/

grub>

If you get that reply, then you should add this to your grub.conf:

Code:

password --md5 $1$sVupd0$7KNtPDDeIN5D0V4zajLet/

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