From owner-cvs-all Tue Nov 30 6:27:13 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns.skylink.it (ns.skylink.it [194.177.113.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240CC158F3; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hibma@skylink.it) Received: from skylink.it (va-138.skylink.it [194.185.55.138]) by ns.skylink.it (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03390; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:29:55 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skylink.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02519; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:39:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hibma@skylink.it) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:39:30 +0100 (CET) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@henny.jrc.it Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman , "Daniel C. Sobral" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth loader.4th loader.conf.5 support.4th In-Reply-To: <38421058.B86FD092@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Frankly, if someone comes complaining bitterly about creeping > featurism and the likes, I'm might just as well back it out. :-) > Maybe put the code in /usr/share/examples/bootforth, though people > who like coolness also happens to demand it pre-installed. Please remove it. I really do not see the point in adding a plain text password. If you don't want people to be able to access the boot loader, disable the key press interrupting and use a boot floppy with a password protected BIOS for if you need to access the machine at that stage. These Microsoft-esque 'security' features are featurism that we can do without. Second, 'it's small, therefore why not' is a fake argument in a boot loader. Just my 20 Lire worth... Nick -- hibma@skylink.it n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message