Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 22/11/2023 at 00:54, y...@vienna.at wrote: I' m afraid I have to read much more about d-i Especially partitioning. But where to start? The debian-installer package contains some documentation (maybe incomplete and outdated) about partman, the d-i partitioning tool. But I do not see the rel

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-21 Thread yxcv
On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:12:31 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: I' m afraid I have to read much more about d-i Especially partitioning. But where to start? Ciao

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 21/11/2023 at 21:35, Danny van Heumen wrote: I noticed that the mount-configuration in `/etc/fstab`, by default, relies on an *implicit* assumption for the ownership of the ESP to /boot/efi, i.e. 'root' (uid 0) only because it is executed as part of the boot process. There is no implicit

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-21 Thread Danny van Heumen
Hi, I will look into this setting. Thanks for pointing this out. Now, to rewind to the original question, because my use case distracts from my question: I noticed that the mount-configuration in `/etc/fstab`, by default, relies on an *implicit* assumption for the ownership of the ESP to /boot

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Argh, please turn off the crappy auto-encryption with your protonmail setup. It's utterly pointless when discussion is going to a mailing list too... ] Hi Danny, On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 07:20:31PM +, Danny van Heumen wrote: >On Nov 21, 2023, 4:59 PM, Steve McIntyre < st...@einval.com> w

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-21 Thread Danny van Heumen
Hi, see in-line. Original Message On Nov 21, 2023, 4:59 PM, Steve McIntyre < st...@einval.com> wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 03:16:42PM +, Danny van Heumen wrote: >Hi, > >AFAICT, there was no follow-up to this. Does this mean that it is >preferred that ownership is determi

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 03:16:42PM +, Danny van Heumen wrote: >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? In normal use, the EFI partition isn't mounted by a user. What are y

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-21 Thread Danny van Heumen
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 wrote: > > > Hi, > > Resending, as I forgot to reply to th

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-09 Thread Danny van Heumen
Hi, Resending, as I forgot to reply to the list. Response in line. On Thursday, 9 November 2023 at 20:52, Pascal Hambourg 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 ow

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
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

Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

2023-11-09 Thread Danny van Heumen
Hi, 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