[ltp] install on a X200, ubuntu windows7 but password protected
Matthias Posseldt
matthi at gmx.li
Mon Oct 19 12:55:20 CEST 2020
On 18 October 2020 16:38:03 CEST, Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 18 October 2020 14:03:01 CEST, Joerg Bruehe <joerg.bruehe at web.de>
>wrote:
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>> While I haven't used Veracrypt, Windows Bitlocker should also work.
>It
>> can be setup to ask for a password on boot.
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>To get that straight, this protection provides booting *any* OS or just
>Windows?
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>I mean the linux user, who does not know this password still could boot
>the linux partion?
The Bitlocker protection applies only to the Windows partition, so password prompt would be after Grub bootloader.
Bitlocker is about encryption, so just a boot password is not the use case.
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