Re: RFC: entering luks password on grub level for devices without keyboards

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On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 13:56, Robbie Harwood <rharwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tomasz Torcz <tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 11:12:43PM +0100, Marius Schwarz wrote:
>> Am 15.03.20 um 13:32 schrieb Vitaly Zaitsev via devel:
>> > On 14.03.2020 13:05, Marius Schwarz wrote:
>> >> If you encrypt  the fedora ( or any ) installation with luks, as
>> >> security of a mobile device indicates, you end up without the
>> >> possibility to enter the password, when you do not have an in/external
>> >> keyboard at hand.
>> > You should use TPM 2.0 LUKS unlock instead of using passwords.
>> >
>> I  knew someone would bring this up:  TMP does not protect your drive,
>> as you could boot with "init=/bin/bash 1" .
>
>    How do you do that WITHOUT KEYBOARD?  This thread is about very
>  specific situation, please do not forget that when generalising.

I believe nothing stops someone from simply plugging one in.


And the counter point is that if you can't plug one in, it is not something that is supported. This is not general purpose hardware but a set of hardware that is primarily built to run Microsoft Windows by the vendor. There are going to be limits to what is going to be possible to get done with it. 


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Stephen J Smoogen.

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