On 13/07/17 12:09, Rich Freeman wrote: > Presumably you'd only want to remount it if it was mounted ro to > start, since it sounds like openrc will be diverging from systemd > behavior here. > > While it seems like a good idea I'm not sure how big an improvement it > is in the larger scheme. We're worried about root accidentially > modifying efivars, but we have no safeguards against root writing to > /dev/sda, and the latter seems much more likely to cause harm, and is > harder to fix. > In case you weren't aware, Rich, rewriting the efivars actually writes to the system BIOS, which renders the computer completely unbootable .. not quite the same as erasing the boot sector of your hard disk, where you simply plug in another device, and Off you go ...
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