I don't think that answers his Q. On my boxes if you put a password in lilo it will NOT boot on it's own after a power failure.
That is probably due to the way you have your BIOS configured, or as mentioned below "prompt" without a "timeout" in Lilo's config.
Frank, what you should probably do is remove the "prompt" line from /etc/lilo.conf. That way it will boot straight into Linux without asking anything - much the same as windows boots straight into windows without asking. That way there will never be a prompt for user input, so no malicious users will have a chance to type anything in(of course neither will you).
HAHAHAHA. Uh, yes it can be made to prompt, just hold down control or shift-? as it boots and lilo will be a good little loader and wait fo input. http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000906.html Goes into it in detail. Once again SecurityPortal has the answer ;)
JW
-Kurt