sudo/root is required to access the grub subdirectory because the
permissions are locked down.
I would guess since there can be encrypted grub passwords (and
possibly other similar stuff) in there that is why it is locked down.
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 6:38 PM Stephen Morris <samorris(a)netspace.net.au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> /etc/extlinux.conf is flagged as missing, the file is displayed in
> red and the link is shown in white text on a red background. As
> mentioned in another thread on this list that file actually is missing.
> /etc/grub2.cfg and /etc/grub2-efi.cfg both of which point to the
> same file also display the same way as /etc/extlinux.conf, but in this
> case the file pointed to actually does exist, and is linking to
> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, which I regularly write to with sudo and
> grub2-mkconfig, but I have also found that I need to use sudo to browse
> /boot/grub2. Is it normal for links to be flagged as missing when sudo
> is required to list the contents of the directory and why is sudo
> required to list the contents of /boot/grub2 when I don't need sudo to
> list the contents of /boot? /boot/efi seems to be in the same situation.
>
> regards,
> Steve
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