>The   situation  would   be  better   if  the   booloader   checked  a
>password. There  seems to be an  ifdef'd out call to  a function named
>checkpasswd() in arch/i386/stand/biosboot/main.c, but  as far as I can
>tell, this function is unimplemented.

not entirely.  the stub call in biosboot/main.c is ifdef'ed out since
most people don't want that functionality.  the function itself is
defined in sys/lib/libsa/checkpasswd.c, however i can't comment on
whether it works or not since i've never used it.

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