Re: Idea: use menu hook to implement the savedefault command

[Bean]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:38:08PM +0800, Bean wrote:
>> >
>> > My idea was to implement unlock in scripting.  So you could do something 
>> > like:
>> >
>> > menuentry unlock {
>> >        echo Password:
>> >        read user_pass
>> >        if [ $user_pass = foo ] ; then
>> >                unset menu_lock
>> >        fi
>> > }
>> >
>> > but Okuji had some objections to this (see the thread I pasted)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know that, but isn't "unlock" another menu item which would normally
>> be locked by menu_lock ? You can hard coded it to ignore the "unlock"
>> menu, but what if user want to use another name.
>
> My patch only implements "locking" in the sense that you can't get access to
> command-line, or edit menuentries, but you can run all existing entries.
>
> If you want to "lock" in the sense of locking a single entry, my intention
> was that this could be done with scripting as well:
>
> menuentry locked {
>        if [ $menu_lock = 1 ] ; then
>                echo fail
>        else
>                blah
>        fi
> }
>
> Is that what you mean?

Hi,

Oh, I see. I thought you lock the menu as well.

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Bean