Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`
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Hi Danny,
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 07:20:31PM +0000, Danny van Heumen wrote:
>On Nov 21, 2023, 4:59 PM, Steve McIntyre < steve@einval.com> wrote:
>>In normal use, the EFI partition isn't mounted by a user. What are
>>you trying to solve here?
>
>I wanted to make the partition user-mountable such that I can mount
>it before upgrading packages. The partition would not be mounted by
>default. (\`noauto,users\`) Then I found out that it defaults to
>ownership of mounting users, which is not good.
>
>As I mentioned previously, I would argue that the ESP should always
>mount with owner 0, even if my use case/experiment itself is an
>outlier. I spotted my mistake, but was surprised by how owner is
>chosen (in such a case).
>
>Yes, even when using sudo this shouldn't be a problem, however the
>behavior does deviate from other filesystems which have their own
>permission bits therefore have "protection" (maybe a strong word)
>against this situation.
Debian's standard installation setup works here as expected. If you
want to break that, then I think it's up to you to handle the
consequences I'm afraid. You're *already* modified the fstab to do
what you want, you get to make the other changes you want too. OK?
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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