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amis

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Registered: 2025-01-05

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[SOLVED] Security hole from Bootctl

Hello,
While installing Archlinux, I ran Bootctl Install and got the following message.

! Random seed file '/boot/loader/random-seed' is world accessible, which is a security hole! !

Can I just ignore it or is it really a security issue?

Last edited by amis (2025-01-05 03:43:33)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Security hole from Bootctl

Your question is pretty meaningless but see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=287790 for more on this "hole".

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amis

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Registered: 2025-01-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Security hole from Bootctl

Thank for the reply

I modified the fstab to fmask=0077,dmask=0077 but it didn't work.
so what I did was

umount /mnt/boot
chmod 0700 /mnt/boot
mount /dev/BOOT_PARTITION/ /mnt/boot -o uid=0,gid=0,fmask=0077,dmask=0077

and it worked!