This verb writes a public key to stdout extracted from either a public key
path, from a certificate (path or provider) or from a private key (path,
engine, provider). We'll use this in ukify to get rid of the use of the
python cryptography module to convert a private key or certificate to a
public key.
This allows loading the X.509 certificate from an OpenSSL provider
instead of a file system path. This allows loading certficates directly
from hardware tokens instead of having to export them to a file on
disk first.
Most people are probably on stable releases, but we don't want to update the
minor version all the time, so just specify 256.x as a hint to fill in the
full version.
I very much dislike the approach in which we were mixing Linux and UEFI C code
in the same subdirectory. No code was shared between two environments. This
layout was created in e7dd673d1e, with the
justification of "being more consistent with the rest of systemd", but I don't
see how it's supposed to be so.
Originally, when the C code was just a single bootctl.c file, this wasn't so
bad. But over time the userspace code grew quite a bit. With the moves done in
previuos commits, the intermediate subdirectory is now empty except for the
efi/ subdir, and this additional subdirectory level doesn't have a good
justification. The components is called "systemd-boot", not "systemd-efi", and
we can remove one level of indentation.
We have other subdirectories with just a single C file. And I expect
that systemd-measure will only grow over time, adding new functionality.
It's nicer to give its own subdirectory to maintain consistent structure.
Currently in mkosi and ukify we use sbsigntools to do secure boot
signing. This has multiple issues:
- sbsigntools is practically unmaintained, sbvarsign is completely
broken with the latest gnu-efi when built without -fshort-wchar and
upstream has completely ignored my bug report about this.
- sbsigntools only supports openssl engines and not the new providers
API.
- sbsigntools doesn't allow us to cache hardware token pins in the
kernel keyring like we do nowadays when we sign stuff ourselves in
systemd-repart or systemd-measure
There are alternative tools like sbctl and pesign but these do not
support caching hardware token pins in the kernel keyring either.
To get around the issues with sbsigntools, let's introduce our own
tool systemd-sbsign to do secure boot signing. This allows us to
take advantage of our own openssl infra so that hardware token pins
are cached in the kernel keyring as expected and we get openssl
provider support as well.
The section headers used quotes as if the strings were some constants. But
AFAICT, those are just normal plain-text titles. Also lowercase them, because
this is almost like a table and it's easier to read without capitalization.
We used both, in fact "Devicetree" was more common. But we have a general rule
that we capitalize all words in names and also we have a DeviceTree=
configuration setting, which we cannot change. If we use two different
spelllings, this will make it harder for people to use the correct one in
config files. So use the "DeviceTree" spelling everywhere.
Daan De Meyer
Yu Watanabe
Vursc
Anselm Schueler
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Luca Boccassi
Oğuz Ersen
Luna Jernberg
Sergey A
Piotr Drąg
Andika Triwidada
Léane GRASSER
Temuri Doghonadze
김인수
Antonio Alvarez Feijoo
Lennart Poettering
Luca Boccassi
Michele Dionisio