Re: F29 System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default

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On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 16:30 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Kyle Marek <psppsn96@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> > On 06/22/2018 05:15 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> > > And basic Unix permissions... because there can be privileged
> > > content in
> > > GRUB config and even initramfs.
> > 
> > That's interesting. I generally don't see /boot as something that
> > normal
> > users shouldn't be able to read. Or, in other words, I generally
> > don't
> > see it as a place where secret data should be stored.
> > 
> > Any particular examples?
> 
> GRUB can have passwords to protect booting, menu options, and
> changing
> config.  The initramfs can have network and iSCSI config for mounting
> the root filesystem.

And /boot can be mounted (and probably should be) only readable to root
?
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