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[FR] Mount ESP with umask 0077

Open technobirb opened this issue 11 months ago • 0 comments

describe the request

The ESP seems to be mounted with the default umask=0022 during installation and written into fstab by genfstab. This causes a warning at boot:

systemd[1]: Starting Update Boot Loader Random Seed...
bootctl[1897]: ! Mount point '/boot' which backs the random seed file is world accessible, which is a security hole! !
bootctl[1897]: ! Random seed file '/boot/loader/random-seed' is world accessible, which is a security hole! !
bootctl[1897]: Random seed file /boot/loader/random-seed successfully refreshed (32 bytes).

It would be better to either mount ESP with umask=0077 during installation, or generate an fstab with the option (e.g. Fedora).

p.s. genfstab also clutter the mount options with default values, but that's cosmetic...

technobirb avatar Feb 25 '25 11:02 technobirb