Re: F29 System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 06:04:54AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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

That would break applications like libguestfs which run as non-root and
have valid need to access /boot/vmlinuz*

Regards,
Daniel
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