From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: grub tools and Windows UAC
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 07:09:22 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1388027362.918.58.camel@opensuse.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52BACCB2.3020507@gmail.com>
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В Ср, 25/12/2013 в 13:16 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
пишет:
> On 25.12.2013 12:11, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > If UAC is enabled, running grub-install (and probably others too - did
> > not try) will request privilege elevation; but then process is
> > re-launched in separate window and disappears after it is finished.
> > This makes even reading help impossible.
> I think that the cause of it is get_default_platform which uses
> get_efi_variable to check for EFI.
Yes, of course.
> Perhaps we should check privileges
> and assume BIOS if get_default_platform is run just for the help.
Better would be to tell the truth - platform unknown.
We will need privilege elevation to perform installation any way. What
we could do is to explicitly warn user about it and later grub-install
will simply exit due to unknown platform.
> >
> > May be grub should check for privilege elevation status and refuse to
> > run if it is not sufficient.
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-26 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-25 11:11 grub tools and Windows UAC Andrey Borzenkov
2013-12-25 12:16 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-26 3:09 ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2013-12-29 16:55 ` Andrey Borzenkov
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