Re: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 03:08:42PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> No.  Only root should be able to load capsules, but even root may not
> be able to write to /lib.

So basically what we want to do is:

# cat /any/path/to/efi/capsule/accessible/to/root/efi_capsule.img > /sys/firmware/efi/update

Now it can't get any simpler than that and you get error codes too by
failing the cat if the update fails.

Mind you, I'm using '#' and not '$' as a shell prompt :-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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