enabling security

Mitch Bradley wmb at laptop.org
Mon Mar 9 12:37:50 EDT 2009


>
> I'm working for the paraguayian deployment, and while testing i got the
> security of a laptop disabled, but i can seem to enable it again
>
> to disable:
> i got a developer key, and on the "ok" prompt, i typed "disable-security"
> it all worked just fine, i did all that i wanted to do
>
> to enable:
> i get to the "ok" prompt and type "enable-security" but it gives me an error
> "Unexpected end-of-line"
> and security is still disabled
>
> is there a step that i'm missing? o perhaps a parameter that i should be
> giving at the prompt?
>   

Yes, you now have to type the serial number as confirmation, for example:

  ok enable-security SHF73300042

Since we are moving to "security is off by default" , we added the 
serial number argument to make it harder for children to do something 
that would make their machine stop working.




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