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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Resending, as I forgot to reply to the list. Response in line. > > > On Thursday, 9 November 2023 at 20:52, Pascal Hambourg [email protected] > 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 ?
