Dear Friends,

How can I set password for grub bootloader?
I am using FC5.

Regards,
greeting

I'm not sure if it's part of the default FC5 install, but do you have gpasswd installed? If so, have a look at man gpasswd.

Hey! friend,

gpasswd is for grub???? Or to manage group????

gpasswd is definitely for setting group passwords. I'm not sure if its included in the FC5. have not used FC5 yet. But yes you can use gpasswd to set group passwords.

gpasswd is also used to add and remove users from a particular group which is an adviced method to add users to a particular group because if you use usermod command to do that then you need to include every group the user needs to be added every time even if you just want to add a user to one group.

For eg: if user jack is already a member of the groups jack, admin, sys and managers and now that you want to add him to group marketing then

# gpasswd -a jack marketing
or
# usermod -G jack,admin,sys,managers,marketing jack

The disadvantage here in using usermod command is that if you only did
# usermod -G marketing jack

then the user jack is removed from all the other groups and is only added to the group marketing. So it is a very good command in linux and I'm sure it should be provided in FC5 also. Though you should check the FC site for details.

Hope its clear now!!!

Dear friends,

Your replies are very useful for me and I got more knowledge than before concern with gpasswd. Actually, I would like to know about GRUB not GRUP. I made the big mistake.

Now, I know the way how to set password for GRUB. All I have to do is to add the following line to /etc/grub.conf.
password --md5 [encrypted md5 password]

Anyhow, Thank you all.


Regards,
greeting