Re: chmod of generated grub.cfg

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 02:38:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> A GRUB_CHMOD
> variable seems overkill, though.

Yes.  Please not a new config option just for this.  Just pick a reasonable
mode and set to it.

Auto-detection doesn't sound bad, although I'd be fine with just using
0400.

> > Else I'd need to add a /etc/grub.d/999_chmod file in grub-installer
> > which changes the mode of grub.cfg.new if the user wants to have a
> > password.
> 
> I think it'd be more sensible to do this in grub-mkconfig itself - it
> doesn't really fit well into the /etc/grub.d/ hook system, which is
> really just for generating output.

Agreed.

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Robert Millan

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