Since grub can be modified at boot time, I wonder if maybe redhat does that
deliberately to allow this feature.
bruce

Matthew Galgoci wrote:

> I encourage you to file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com. grub.conf should
> arguably be treated the same as /etc/shadow.
>
> Matt
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:29:23PM +0000, Jim Breton wrote:
> > Hi all.  Been using Red Hat (7.2) for about a week or two now (was a
> > Debian user for a couple years).  I've been installing the Errata RPMs
> > and I've noticed that when I install the kernel packages, they hose the
> > permissions I've set on grub.conf.
> >
> > I set them non-world-readable because the file contains the hash of the
> > bootloader password.  Is there any way I can prevent the RPMs from
> > changing this?  Or should I file a bug report against the package?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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