Certificate based authentication is available as an alternative to password based authentication. The WMI commands are cryptographically signed using a separate signing server and will be verified by the BIOS before being accepted. This commit details the fields that are needed to support that implementation. At present the changes are intended for Lenovo platforms, but have been designed to keep them as flexible as possible for future implementations from other vendors. Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <markpearson@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - Combined set_signature with signature and moved save_signature under the authorisation folder - Fixed mistake in example for clearing certificate Changes in v3: - Added clarification on certificate clear also disabling password .../testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes | 45 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes index 13e31c6a0e9c..05820365f1ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes @@ -246,6 +246,51 @@ Description: that is being referenced (e.g hdd0, hdd1 etc) This attribute defaults to device 0. + certificate: + signature: + save_signature: + These attributes are used for certificate based authentication. This is + used in conjunction with a signing server as an alternative to password + based authentication. + The user writes to the attribute(s) with a BASE64 encoded string obtained + from the signing server. + The attributes can be displayed to check the stored value. + + Some usage examples: + Installing a certificate to enable feature: + echo <supervisor password > authentication/Admin/current_password + echo <signed certificate> > authentication/Admin/certificate + + Updating the installed certificate: + echo <signature> > authentication/Admin/signature + echo <signed certificate> > authentication/Admin/certificate + + Removing the installed certificate: + echo <signature> > authentication/Admin/signature + echo '' > authentication/Admin/certificate + + Changing a BIOS setting: + echo <signature> > authentication/Admin/signature + echo <save signature> > authentication/Admin/save_signature + echo Enable > attribute/PasswordBeep/current_value + + You cannot enable certificate authentication if a supervisor password + has not been set. + Clearing the certificate results in no bios-admin authentication method + being configured allowing anyone to make changes. + After any of these operations the system must reboot for the changes to + take effect. + + certificate_thumbprint: + Read only attribute used to display the MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 thumbprints + for the certificate installed in the BIOS. + + certificate_to_password: + Write only attribute used to switch from certificate based authentication + back to password based. + Usage: + echo <signature> > authentication/Admin/signature + echo <password> > authentication/Admin/certificate_to_password What: /sys/class/firmware-attributes/*/attributes/pending_reboot -- 2.35.1
