Re: Vote for new Ubuntu Feature---Let's try it again

Peter Garrett wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:06:17 -0500
alex <aradsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Addressing the problem of editing and saving the changes to an unsavable
menu.lst .....
Before attempting to save, run the following:

sudo chmod go+rw /boot/grub/menu.lst



No. As I and others have pointed out, changing permissions in such a
manner is a Bad Thing (tm) . The changes would need to be reverted
afterwards, ( which is easily forgotten, and requires knowing what the
original settings were), and it is unnecessary anyway, since running your
editor with sudo/gksudo achieves the same purpose, without the risk of
opening vital files that should retain their restricted permissions.

Peter



If I recall correctly, I was working an editor as root at the time I
tried to save to menu.list and even root couldn't save.

The reason why I used 'sudo chmod go+rw /boot/grub/menu.list' is that I
thought 'go' gave permission only to root and a user which I felt
offered more security than 'a'.

I was in the process of configuring menu.list to include 6 additional
linux systems besides Windows and UBUNTU and they were done one at a
time while running UBUNTU with testing in between. I do understand now
that I could have used sudo/gksudo but at the time, I wasn't aware of
this command.

I have since configured menu.list in all 7 linux systems to permit any
of them to become a default booter.(just in case)



alex

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