On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:35:49AM +0800, Michael Chang wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:39:06AM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > > В Tue, 26 May 2015 15:53:14 +0800 > > Michael Chang <mch...@suse.com> пишет: > > > > > This patch provides settings in simple configuration interface that can > > > set > > > common options to menuentry. One of the use cases is specifying the > > > security > > > settings thus it won't be overwritten by grub-mkconfig. For eg. > > > > > > GRUB_MENU_ENTRY_OPTION_LINUX="--unrestricted" > > > GRUB_MENU_ENTRY_OPTION_OSPROBER="--users user1" > > > > > > > I'm not sure. I actually feel like configurations that need detailed > > per user authorizations simply do not fit into simplistic > > grub-mkconfig. Next someone will miss per-menuentry user list. > > Thanks for comment. I'm also not sure as per menu entry options not fit > well with global options context provided by simple interface. But from > my understanding, generic options settings maybe more welcome from > upstream POV, so that's why I send it here as RFC patch. :) > > > > > Most common request is really to allow menu boot while restricting > > command line, so I think that adding support for this to grub-mkconfig > > would be fine. > > Yes. We have quite many users request the password protection to work > the same way as legacy grub, that is actually what --unrestricted could > provide them, but they need to manually patch grub scripts to keep their > settings persist as currently distribution tools have no way to > integrate it by lacking of inteface in simple config. We can extend that > on our own, of course, but it seems better to coordinated on upstream if > possible. > > How do you think proposed option like this ? > > GRUB_UNRESTRICTED_MENU_ENTRY="true"
Hi Andrei, Do you have any comment on the new setting? I am absolutely happy to work on the patch if it's the way to go. If not, do you have any other recommends or be it a down-stream settings is more feasible here ? Thanks, Michael > > to have generated menu-entry with --unrestricted options set? > > > Otherwise something more detailed should really be left > > to distribution specific tools or manual creation of grub.cfg. > > Agreed. > > Thanks, > Michael > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Grub-devel mailing list > > Grub-devel@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
