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From: Eric Lammerts <eric@lammerts.org>
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On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Juergen Pabel wrote:
> my patch allows for kernel commandline parameters (ie: from
> bootloader) to be masked in order to prevent later retrieval

<snip>

> In other news: I am thinking of setting up a special
> kernel+initrd/initramfs project that will ask the user "nicely" to
> authenticate

That would make that ugly kernel patch pointless, wouldn't it? Then
why bother with it?

Eric