On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 01:40:08PM +0000, Karel Zak wrote:
> From my point of view (and maybe I'm wrong ;-)) it seems complex enough to keep it as an independent stand-alone project ("sed-utils").
> Not sure if it makes sense to push it to generic util-linux package.
It sounds to me that your major concern for inclusion sedcli into util-linux is
its complexity. What would be the best method to understand if sedcli fits into
util-linux?
Thx,
Andrzej
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From: util-linux-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:util-linux-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karel Zak
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 3:40 PM
To: Jakowski, Andrzej <andrzej.jakowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: util-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RFC] utility for SED management
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 06:30:51AM +0000, Jakowski, Andrzej wrote:
> We have built prototype code covering these functionalities and now we
> would like to productize it. We are looking for the right place to
> publish our SW, considering util-linux project as one of the options.
> The SW will likely consist of:
> * Libsed - shared object exposing programmatic interface for security
> management (Opal) of disk
> * Sedcli - command line utility covering both client and data center flows.
> Sedcli will use libsed for interaction with the drive, libkmip for
> interaction with OASIS KMIP based key manager and tpm2-tss to interact with
> TPM2 key manager
> * Udev rules - will be used to invoke sedcli to auto-provision or auto-unlock
> when new device is added to the OS (e.g. hot insert)
> * System.d scripts - will be used to invoke sedcli when key needs to be
> retrieved from network attached key manager
> * Config file - will define policies for example on which disk should be
> security managed or not
>
> We would like to contribute that SW into util-linux project. What do
> you think about adding this SW into util-linux?
>From my point of view (and maybe I'm wrong ;-)) it seems complex enough to keep it as an independent stand-alone project ("sed-utils").
Not sure if it makes sense to push it to generic util-linux package.
Karel
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