[Bug 1602605] [NEW] Ambigous dialogue box when running update-secureboot-policy

[Stefan Bader]

Public bug reported:

Currently the dialogue box that appears when calling update-secureboot-
policy on a system with secure-boot enabled in bios will talk about
disabling "UEFI Secure Boot". This and the whole text sounded rather
like modifying the setting in bios than what is actually done (change
the shim mode). I don't know what would be a better description for it
but right now it sounds like it could lead to a lot of
misunderstandings.

One other thing which I cannot test as I currently have no secure-boot
dual boot system: the message about booting in non-secure boot is
displayed by shim before the grub screen. Does that mean secure-boot is
disabled for anything that is booted by grub? Because normally when I
had dual-boot, the selection is made on the grub selection screen which
then chainloads into either Windows or Linux.

** Affects: shim-signed (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Ambigous dialogue box when running update-secureboot-policy

Status in shim-signed package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently the dialogue box that appears when calling update-
  secureboot-policy on a system with secure-boot enabled in bios will
  talk about disabling "UEFI Secure Boot". This and the whole text
  sounded rather like modifying the setting in bios than what is
  actually done (change the shim mode). I don't know what would be a
  better description for it but right now it sounds like it could lead
  to a lot of misunderstandings.

  One other thing which I cannot test as I currently have no secure-boot
  dual boot system: the message about booting in non-secure boot is
  displayed by shim before the grub screen. Does that mean secure-boot
  is disabled for anything that is booted by grub? Because normally when
  I had dual-boot, the selection is made on the grub selection screen
  which then chainloads into either Windows or Linux.

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