[uefi-secure-boot-guide] master: Add a note about a danger of disabling secure boot. (a6b886d)
sparks at fedoraproject.org
sparks at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 1 00:54:29 UTC 2013
Repository : http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=docs/uefi-secure-boot-guide.git
On branch : master
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commit a6b886d952aa19d10fb78467755e1d1a009e6cdb
Author: Josh Bressers <josh at bress.net>
Date: Thu Jan 31 14:01:48 2013 -0600
Add a note about a danger of disabling secure boot.
Signed-off-by: Eric Christensen <sparks at redhat.com>
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en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml b/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml
index b13206e..f04666a 100644
--- a/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml
+++ b/en-US/What_is_Secure_Boot.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ restricted, but user space malware cannot. This of course doesn't mean
Secure Boot isn't useful, just that it currently only serves a single
purpose, which is protecting the boot loader.
</para>
+ <note>
+ <title>Do not disable secure boot</title>
+ <para>
+ It is important you do not disable Secure Boot if
+your system fails to boot. A plausible attack would be replacing the shim
+with something dangerous and hoping a user will disable Secure Boot to
+solve their problem.
+ </para>
+ </note>
</section>
</chapter>
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