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Re: Templates for shim-signed



Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> thanks for your ultra fast review.
[...]
>>>  .
>>>  If you choose to proceed but do not confirm the password upon reboot, Ubuntu
>>>  will still be able to boot on your system but the Secure Boot state will not
>>>  be changed.
>> 
>> That's only true if it was booting Ubuntu before!  This needs to be
>> de-branded... and besides, we can't guarantee that the machine will
>> succeed in booting without (e.g.) being struck by lightning!
>> 
>>   If you choose to proceed but do not confirm the password upon reboot, the
>>   Secure Boot configuration will not be changed, and the machine will continue
>>   booting as usual.
> 
> Woudln't it be better:
> … booting as usual → booting as before

Yes, that's probably better.
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package


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