How to set loader password

Nerius Landys nlandys at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 16:15:50 UTC 2010


> I was looking in /boot/loader.rc and found these lines:
>
> \ Tests for password -- executes autoboot first if a password was defined
> check-password
>
> OK, great, so: How do I set this password? What does it protect? Didn't find
> documentation in loader(8) and no man-page for loader.rc.

/boot/loader.conf

> man loader.conf

> cat /boot/loader.conf

autoboot_delay="6"
loader_logo="beastie"
password="pass"
snd_ich_load="YES"


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