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On Tuesday 15 Aug 2017 16:02:19 Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> I can't recall if I did this myself in a moment of security induced |
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> >> inspiration. I doubt I did. So how did this happen? What is |
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> >> responsible for mounting this fs? |
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> > |
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> > It looks like this never did turn into a news item: |
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> > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/35304b0db4de9e06fea32227537 |
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> > 9fa81 |
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> > You can remount it as rw if your tools don't do it automatically. It |
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> > might not hurt to file a bug if one doesn't already exist for the tool |
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> > that isn't remounting it. |
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> Please bother efibootmgr upstream about it, or bother the OpenRC |
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> maintainer who decided to break things. |
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Thank you Rich, I suspected it was an intentional change and from a security |
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perspective it is to be commended. However, it could cause uninformed users |
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like myself some lost time, thinking something may have gone wrong on our |
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system. |
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I submitted bug #627964: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627964 |
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I think a news item although useful, on its own is not sufficient. If |
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remounting 'rw' and back again to 'ro' is not performed by the legit commands |
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which touch efivars (e.g. efibootmgr, GRUB, et al), the HandBook should also |
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be amended if it hasn't been already, because newbies will have one more |
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excuse to pack it in and go back to *buntu. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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