10th November 2009
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Interesting "Security" Issue on GRUB 2
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With GRUB 1.97, if your password was "phoronix", any individual could log-in just entering "p" or "nix" or any other part of the string even just one character. With the just-out GRUB 1.97.1, this issue has been addressed.
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More here:
http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzY4NQ
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