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Old 7th December 2012, 06:41 PM
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Exclamation Grub2 Password protection problem

I just installed fedora 17, and enable password protection during the installation.
I've set a password because the installer asked for it, but when I'm trying to boot, grub2 asks for a username too.
What username is it asking for?
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Old 10th December 2012, 12:10 PM
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Re: Grub2 Password protection problem

If you haven't set anything different, try "root".

If you're able to boot, or read the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file from some other OS (a live CD?), then look out for lines in the file like this:
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set superusers="root"                                                           
password_pbkdf2 root grub.pbkdf2.sha512.huge-hex-number

Last edited by marriedto51; 10th December 2012 at 12:12 PM. Reason: Hit "submit" too early!
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Old 11th December 2012, 03:41 PM
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Smile Re: Grub2 Password protection problem

Thanks, "root" works.
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