So, I can't remeber if anybody mentioned this, but:
How about using config info stored on a USB keydriver? A relatively
simple GUI app could dump the config information to one/multiple
keydrives which could then be plugged into the machine when it boots up,
and an initial installation program would get values from the keydrive.
Could optionally encrypt the data on the drive since the OS image from the
server would certainly have the keys to decrypt the info on the keydrive.
On a side note, Microsoft does this for wireless configuration of some
sort with Wireless Zero Configuration, but I don't think for anything
OS-based (correct me if I'm wrong).
Dan
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Seth Nickell wrote:
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 16:29 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:44:07AM -0700, Josh England wrote:
> > prompt and running the 'mount -t nfs' by hand. This pushes the
security
> > concerns onto the NFS server. I believe that NFS v4 has paid more
> > attention to security details.
>
> So I hack DHCP, or the kernel PXE boot. Booting without keys on local storage
> is a known hard problem. I'm not aware of any solutions
The design plan for this involves using keys on first "install" as one
of the three or four things you have to set. The keys should also
specify the IP address of the directory server, so everything else
should be fetchable from there. I don't think we've moved this into the
technical bits yet though.
-Seth
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