Re: Feedback on default partitioning and encryption

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On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 16:23 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 1:18 pm, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > This is the dilemma. It necessarily needs a single schema, there is
> > only one default. Customizations aren't going away.
> 
> We're not trying to come up with something that works perfectly for 
> everyone. We're just trying to come up with a default that works 
> reasonably well for most users. That means:
> 
>  * Only one password prompt
>  * Password prompt must support ibus and normal expected range of 
> languages (i.e. not be done in plymouth), because not all the world 
> uses Latin alphabets
>  * Optimize for single-user systems, but don't break multi-user either
> 
> Regarding the use cases: "shared workstation vs personal desktop vs 
> personal laptop vs corporate laptop," we support all of the above. We 
> want to optimize for personal desktop, personal laptop, and corporate 
> laptop, not for shared workstation. We still need shared workstation 
> and multiuser laptop to *work*, though, but it's OK if it's not quite 
> as secure.
> 
> That said, the installer cannot know whether additional user accounts 
> will be created in the future, so the installer does not know which 
> use-case it's installing for. ;)

And people can change use over time.

I do not see an easy way out here anyway, good luck!

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce
RHEL Crypto Team
Red Hat, Inc



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