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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 < st...@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. st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
