[Solved] User Password during login on bootable USB with changes saved

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[Solved] User Password during login on bootable USB with changes saved

Post#16 by donald » 09 Apr 2020, 21:45

Just to make it foolproof. :)

/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg

PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 90 <-- remove
UI vesamenu.c32
DEFAULT GRAPHICAL
MENU MASTER PASSWD your_password <-- add
MENU BACKGROUND porteus.png
MENU TITLE Porteus-5.0 64bit

leave the following lines untouched > scroll down to the boot option entries.
Add MENU PASSWD to any boot option you want to be password protected

Example:

LABEL GRAPHICAL
MENU LABEL Graphics mode
MENU PASSWD <-- add
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/vmlinuz
INITRD /boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
APPEND changes=/porteus
TEXT HELP
Run Porteus the best way we can.
Try to autoconfigure graphics
card and use the maximum
allowed resolution
ENDTEXT

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