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Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`



Hi,

AFAICT, there was no follow-up to this. Does this mean that it is preferred that ownership is determined solely by the user who mounts the EFI partition?

Regards,
Danny



On Friday, 10 November 2023 at 03:07, Danny van Heumen <danny@dannyvanheumen.nl> wrote:


> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Resending, as I forgot to reply to the list. Response in line.
> 
> 
> On Thursday, 9 November 2023 at 20:52, Pascal Hambourg pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 09/11/2023 at 17:36, Danny van Heumen wrote:
> > 
> > > I recently discovered that `/boot/efi`, being a FAT parition, is mounted with an implicit owner and group, because FAT cannot store permissions. For the default use case, `/boot/efi` is mounted automatically during boot, so there is little risk. With diffirent mount options, this may become an issue.
> > > 
> > > Was it ever considered to add `uid=0,gid=0` as default mount options for the EFI System Partition (ESP)?
> 
> 
> I would argue that this should be independent of use case, that is you would want to ensure the ESP is always accessed as root. (Same as for example the `umask=0077` setting that I think is already part of the install.)
> Apart from that, I was experimenting with having /boot not auto-mounted, but only mounted manually when performing system updates.
> 
> > Which use cases would this be useful for ?


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