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009.04.91.30. How does the `01_users` script handle user authentication in GRUB2? Could you walk us through the steps involved in setting up user passwords and defining superusers?
CODE SEGMENT FOR USER AUTHENTICATION - if [ -n "${GRUB2_PASSWORD}" ] then set supersusers="root" export superusers password_pbkdf2 root ${GRUB2_PASSWORD} fi
Steps for setting up passwords and defining superusers -
CHECK FOR GRUB2_PASSWORD : It checks if variable `GRUB2_PASSWORD` is defined which contains a hashed password loaded from `user.cfg`
DEFINE SUPERUSERS : If the password is set, it defines a `superusers` variable and assigns it the value "root".
EXPORT SUPERUSERS : The 'superusers' variable is exported so that its value is available to other scripts.
PASSWORD SETUP : It sets password for root user using `password_pbkdf2` command with user "root" and hashed password.