If I'm not wrong, this would make it easier for end-users to "tweak" permissions if you don't put a password on the grub menu entries (which you should do anyway, as otherwise unprivileged users could be dropped to a root shell)
I know it's a bit of security-through-obscurity and is certainly less flexible, but I think it might be safer to have the desired permissions hard-coded in the initramfs. Perhaps I'm worng/misguided. Wouldn't be the first time.
Anyway, either way it does the job. It'd be just fantastic if there was a nice little GUI that would do this for you (or at least documentation, which I guess is what this is now.) Alas, I'm not volunteering to do it. This workaround was my best effort.
Thank you for the update.
If I'm not wrong, this would make it easier for end-users to "tweak" permissions if you don't put a password on the grub menu entries (which you should do anyway, as otherwise unprivileged users could be dropped to a root shell)
I know it's a bit of security- through- obscurity and is certainly less flexible, but I think it might be safer to have the desired permissions hard-coded in the initramfs. Perhaps I'm worng/misguided. Wouldn't be the first time.
Anyway, either way it does the job. It'd be just fantastic if there was a nice little GUI that would do this for you (or at least documentation, which I guess is what this is now.) Alas, I'm not volunteering to do it. This workaround was my best effort.