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On 13/07/17 12:09, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Presumably you'd only want to remount it if it was mounted ro to |
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> start, since it sounds like openrc will be diverging from systemd |
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> behavior here. |
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> While it seems like a good idea I'm not sure how big an improvement it |
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> is in the larger scheme. We're worried about root accidentially |
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> modifying efivars, but we have no safeguards against root writing to |
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> /dev/sda, and the latter seems much more likely to cause harm, and is |
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> harder to fix. |
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In case you weren't aware, Rich, rewriting the efivars actually writes |
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to the system BIOS, which renders the computer completely unbootable .. |
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not quite the same as erasing the boot sector of your hard disk, where |
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you simply plug in another device, and Off you go ... |
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