Re: Unencrypted boot with encrypted root

2020-04-03 Thread Ellen Papsch
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 02.04.2020, 10:59 +0200 schrieb Pierre Neidhardt: > Hi! > > I've followed the doc / template to set up an encrypted system on my > laptop: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > (mapped-devices >(list (mapped-device > (sourc

Re: Unencrypted boot with encrypted root

2020-04-03 Thread Ellen Papsch
Am Freitag, den 03.04.2020, 18:13 +0200 schrieb Pierre Neidhardt: > Ellen Papsch writes: > > > leaving /boot unencrypted allows attackers to plant malware > > relatively > > easy. They can mount the partition without ado and replace the > > kernel > > with

Re: Unencrypted boot with encrypted root

2020-04-04 Thread Ellen Papsch
Am Freitag, den 03.04.2020, 21:44 +0200 schrieb pelzflorian (Florian Pelz): > > So using a single encrypted partition instead of separate /boot > protects from script kiddies (siblings/“friends”?) with hardware > access that know how to put their own grub.cfg on an unencrypted > /boot > partition

Re: Unencrypted boot with encrypted root

2020-04-06 Thread Ellen Papsch
Am Samstag, den 04.04.2020, 12:18 +0200 schrieb pelzflorian (Florian Pelz): > Could key files help in passing the passphrase on to the > Linux kernel? The Arch Wiki says this: [...] > The key file would be another means of decrypting the master key, if I understand LUKS correctly. It would be in

Re: Unencrypted boot with encrypted root

2020-04-07 Thread Ellen Papsch
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 07.04.2020, 11:46 +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Hi, > > Ellen Papsch skribis: > > > Am Samstag, den 04.04.2020, 12:18 +0200 schrieb pelzflorian > > (Florian > > Pelz): > > > Could key files help in passing the passphrase on to the

Re: Unencrypted boot with encrypted root

2020-04-08 Thread Ellen Papsch
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 07.04.2020, 09:47 -0700 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian: > On 2020-04-07, Alex Griffin wrote: > > So we can put the key in its own initrd (outside of the store) > > > > I believe it's also possible for grub to provide the key > derived/decrypted from the passphrase entered at run-

Re: Unencrypted boot with encrypted root

2020-04-08 Thread Ellen Papsch
Am Dienstag, den 07.04.2020, 22:19 +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Ellen Papsch skribis: > > > Sure, but what happens when you reconfigure? You still need to have > that file around so it can be added to the initrd. > Does it really have to be added to initrd? From my oth

Wisdom regarding packaging proxysql

2020-02-05 Thread Ellen Papsch
Hello Guix, I'm currently packaging proxysql, of course with the goal of getting it into Guix upstream as well. There are two hurdles, which I thought I should discuss here. The first is the rather unflexible Makefile based build system. It would require some patching on Guix side. For example, t

Re: Wisdom regarding packaging proxysql

2020-02-06 Thread Ellen Papsch
Am Mittwoch, den 05.02.2020, 15:23 -0500 schrieb Leo Famulari: > > It's not uncommon to see hard-coded installation prefixes. What else > would need to be changed? Is it doable? All dependencies are statically linked to the binary. I'll have to trim down the build steps to just mariadb-connector-

Re: Using the Hetzner Cloud

2020-02-17 Thread Ellen Papsch
Hi, Am Montag, den 17.02.2020, 14:47 +0100 schrieb Jonathan Brielmaier: > Hi folks, > > as promised on the Guix Days in Bruxelles I asked Hetzner[0] if they > could provide us some free VMs in their cloud[1]. > > A few days ago they came back go to me. Sadly they can't provide us > free > VMs, b

Re: Using the Hetzner Cloud

2020-02-18 Thread Ellen Papsch
Am Montag, den 17.02.2020, 18:15 +0100 schrieb Alex Sassmannshausen: > > > So I deploy debian, then copy across a script and run that. This > takes > care of turning the debian machine into a guix machine and deploys my > sys config immediately. > > This is by far the fastest way of deploying