Re: Unencrypted password in EFI mode

[paul kerdren]

No, I use a French keyboard.

but I checked "user" and "insecure" use the same keys on the French and USA
keyboards.

I tried with root:root too, but without success.

Le mer. 3 juin 2020 à 15:57, Steve <steve@easy2boot.com> a écrit :

> Are you using a standard USA keyboard?
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 at 14:55, paul kerdren <paul.kerdren@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know it's a really bad practice but I would like to understand the
>> differences between BIOS and EFI mode in grub.
>>
>> When I put "password user insecure" in the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file in
>> BIOS mode, grub recognizes my password and allows me to edit the grub
>> configuration.
>>
>> On the other hand, when I'm in EFI mode (/boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg),
>> the password doesn't work and I have the punishment delay increasing.
>> The password_pbkdf2 command works correctly.
>>
>> Could you explain me the difference between the 2 modes?
>> I searched in the source code but didn't find anything relevant.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul.
>>
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