On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 17:39 +0530, Pallav Jain wrote: > If that is the password for only Grub at the booting, does it > guarantee the security of the hard-disk? No, grub passwords only affect what GRUB can do. If you can boot some other way, you bypass it. Or you could remove the drive and read it with another computer. To secure a drive, you need to encrypt it. There are options to encrypt a drive when you start the installation. You need to go into customising the drive partitioning. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines