Re: F41 Change Proposal: Nvidia Driver Installation with Secure Boot Support (self-contained)

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On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 12:44:53PM +0100, Aoife Moloney wrote:
> Wiki - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NvidiaInstallationWithSecureboot
> Discussion Thread -
> https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f41-change-proposal-nvidia-driver-installation-with-secure-boot-support-self-contained/120330
> 
> This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
> This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
> process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
> community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
> by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.
> 
> 
> == Summary ==
> 
> Nvidia Drivers have been removed from GNOME Software because it didn't
> support Secure Boot which is increasingly often enabled. This change
> brings the option back with Secure Boot supported.
> 
> == Owner ==
> 
> * Name: [[User:eischmann|Jiří Eischmann]]
> * Name: Milan Crha
> 
> * Email: eischmann@xxxxxxxxxx
> * Email: mcrha@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> == Detailed Description ==
> 
> The goal is this change is to provide an easy way to install Nvidia
> drivers in Fedora Workstation. It was removed from GNOME Software
> because the original mechanism didn't support Secure Boot. When users
> installed the drivers with Secure Boot enabled, they could not boot
> the OS.
> What we're doing this time is using mokutil to create a key for the
> user to self-sign the drivers. When installing the drivers, the user
> is asked to provide a password for the key. On the next reboot the
> user is presented with the mokutil interface to enroll the key.

Should this be a system-wide change, rather than self-contained
change ? While the implementation is in gnome-software, since this
is semi-automating enrollment of a new SecureBoot MOK, with the
private key strored locally, it has security impact on the distro
as a whole.

With regards,
Daniel
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