GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #41801, Please provide a possibility in...
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bug #41801: Please provide a possibility in /etc/default/grub to pass --unrestricted to all menuentries
Submitter: | Axel Beckert <abe> | ||
Submitted: | Fri 07 Mar 2014 01:18:39 PM UTC | ||
Votes: | 8 | ||
Category: | Configuration | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | Feature Request |
Status: | None | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | |
Open/Closed: | Open | Release: | 2.00 |
Release: | Reproducibility: | None | |
Planned Release: | 2.03+ |
Wed 19 Apr 2023 08:27:55 AM UTC, comment #4: |
jamesps |
Sat 22 Jun 2019 04:05:54 PM UTC, comment #3: I am attaching an updated patch (tested against version 2.02) which introduces a new optional variable named GRUB_UNRESTRICTED_BOOT (to be placed in the /etc/default/grub file).
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Francesco Poli <frx> |
Fri 07 Mar 2014 01:59:17 PM UTC, comment #2: The attached patch adds a new optional user variable named GRUB_ALL_UNRESTRICTED which, when set to "true" only restricts editing of all menu entries, but not booting them.
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Axel Beckert <abe> |
Fri 07 Mar 2014 01:33:15 PM UTC, comment #1: The patch in the RedHat bug report seems to revert the default which seems not wanted by the Grub developers.
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Axel Beckert <abe> |
Fri 07 Mar 2014 01:18:39 PM UTC, original submission:
This is more or less a followup to these two bug reports:
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Axel Beckert <abe> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2019-06-22 | frx | Attached File | - | Added grub-unrestricted-boot.patch, #47121 | |
2017-10-20 | frx | Carbon-Copy | - | Added frx | |
2017-03-05 | phcoder | Planned Release | 2.02 | 2.03+ | |
2016-03-02 | phcoder | Planned Release | None | 2.02 | |
2016-01-05 | vagnerr | Carbon-Copy | - | Added vagnerr | |
2014-12-18 | dgeo | Carbon-Copy | - | Added dgeo | |
2014-03-07 | mdailey | Carbon-Copy | - | Added mdailey | |
2014-03-07 | abe | Attached File | - | Added 0001-Introduce-GRUB_ALL_UNRESTRICTED-to-only-restrict-edi.patch, #30817 | |
2014-03-07 | abe | Carbon-Copy | - | Added phcoder |
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Is there any movement on this? This feature request has been open for nearly 10 years
As Axel Beckert stated, this is vital for enterprise Linux workstation deployments.
In its current state, there is no clean way to prevent modifying grub menuentries at boot-time while still allowing users to boot from them.
original submission: