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| author | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2008-04-28 10:54:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2008-04-28 10:54:34 +0000 |
| commit | 30dc7127a12ec0b9dc91872f5be05afc156f6eed (patch) | |
| tree | 9c15b59ab672eceadefb633afe7e8cfcc4ba586b | |
| parent | 6a77d37c72ccaedf2e80b04d053169f5531a3f94 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-30dc7127a12ec0b9dc91872f5be05afc156f6eed.zip | |
Explain how a grub password can be generated
| -rw-r--r-- | en/appendix/preseed.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml index 8c08d19c1..d945041d0 100644 --- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml +++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml @@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ authentication or <command>sudo</command>). </para><para> -An MD5 hash for a password can be generated using the following command. +The following command can be used to generate an MD5 hash for a password: <informalexample><screen> $ echo "r00tme" | mkpasswd -s -m md5 @@ -1294,10 +1294,17 @@ d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true # Optional password for grub, either in clear text #d-i grub-installer/password password r00tme #d-i grub-installer/password-again password r00tme -# or encrypted using an MD5 hash. +# or encrypted using an MD5 hash, see grub-md5-crypt(8). #d-i grub-installer/password-crypted password [MD5 hash] </screen></informalexample> +<para> + +An MD5 hash for a password for <classname>grub</classname> can be generated +using <command>grub-md5-crypt</command>, or using the command from the +example in <xref linkend="preseed-account"/>. + +</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="preseed-finish"> |