[systemd-devel] How to factory reset?

Andrei Borzenkov arvidjaar at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 20:57:36 PDT 2015


В Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:50:23 +0100
Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> пишет:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> If you're concerned about bootloader configuration modification as a
> >>> threat vector, then it needs to go on an encrypted volume. This
> >>> suggests an initial bootloader configuration that only enables the
> >>> user to supply a passphrase/key file to unlock that volume, and then
> >>> load a new bootloader configuration file.
> >>
> >> I am still hoping secure boot and sd-boot will solve this issue
> >> mid-term by making sure all the early boot components are signed
> >> properly.
> >
> > The bootloader configuration files aren't signed. Maybe the should be.
> 
> With systemd-boot, there will be no config to sign:
>   https://harald.hoyer.xyz/2015/02/25/single-uefi-executable-for-kernelinitrdcmdline/
> 

How exactly putting files in a container solves the problem that they
are not signed? This is not quite obvious from blog post.


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