Your message dated Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:27:09 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line misleading 'You need to be root' when Linux is in Lockdown mode has caused the Debian Bug report #959500, regarding misleading 'You need to be root' when Linux is in Lockdown mode to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: flashrom Version: 1.2-5 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 It seems this is because I use my system with Secure Boot, so Lockdown mode is enabled by default, but in principle I think it could be enabled by anyone (maybe it's used by SELinux users as well) # flashrom -p internal -r woo flashrom v1.2 on Linux 5.5.0-2-amd64 (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). ERROR: Could not get I/O privileges (Operation not permitted). You need to be root. Error: Programmer initialization failed. # dmesg | tail -3 [38836.060931] Lockdown: flashrom: raw io port access is restricted; see https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot [38851.136762] Lockdown: flashrom: raw io port access is restricted; see https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot [38865.113982] Lockdown: flashrom: raw io port access is restricted; see https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot flashrom should say the actual semantic of the problem, that it couldn't access a device, instead of its best guess. - -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages flashrom depends on: ii libc6 2.30-4 ii libftdi1-2 1.4-2+b2 ii libpci3 1:3.6.4-1 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.23-2 flashrom recommends no packages. flashrom suggests no packages. - -- debconf-show failed -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYIAB0WIQT287WtmxUhmhucNnhyvHFIwKstpwUCXq45lgAKCRByvHFIwKst pxjXAQDidnYRdO0NEDDkPxcmxgT/+zsHnCovWtWTjGsbUS67XQEA9xFDpObphlMa pb8aTi0E6hnwOqvk7p9qJDV9tf1IWg0= =1538 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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