Bad idea to ask password in bootloader

[gihnius]

Before FreeBSD 9.0, the loader would not ask the password. But why has freebsd FreeBSD 9.0 changed this? The password in /boot/loader.conf is helpful to protect the boot menu! Not the system!

If I don't want to enter the boot menu, why ask for the password?

 

[kpa]

The loader in FreeBSD 9.0 does not ask for any kind of password by default, that much I can say from my three FreeBSD 9 systems I have.

 

[gkontos]

Same here, running 9-CURRENT from last December to 9-RC3 today!

 

[wblock@]

Key for an encrypted volume, maybe?

 

[ded3axap]

To fix a problem with bootmenu password protection see this link:

PR conf/170110