Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> on Fri, 2014/05/16 18:56: > On Wed, 30.04.14 23:20, Christian Hesse ([email protected]) wrote: > > > 4. udev launches my executable 'ykfde' > > 5. ykfde asks for a second password (second factor) > > 6. user types second password on keyboard > > 7. ykfde reveives second password and generates challenge > > 8. ykfde sends challenge to the key > > 9. ykfde receives response from the key > > 10. ykfde answers systemd's password request > > 11. systemd unlocks the hard disk and continues booting > > > > Is there any way to make sure the users answers the second password > > request? > > > > If no Yubikey is present (and no second password request is started) the > > user should be able to answer as usual by typing a valid key. > > Did I get this right: > > a) if there's a yubikey present, your tool shall answer cryptsetup's > password queries, and the user shall only answer your tool's questions? > > b) if there's no yubikey present, the user shall directly answer > cryptsetup's password queries? > > So basically, you want to plug your tool in the middle of the password > pipeline, when the tool is running?
Exactly.
> I don't see a way how to do that in the current scheme. We could extend
> it in a way where a client could take posession of a password requests
> or so. Maybe via bsd file locks on the file containing the prompt or
> so. As soon as some other process sees that it would have to hide the
> prompt?
>
> But meh, I am I have the suspicion we'll revisit the entire password
> prompt protocol anyway as soon as we have kdbus and can use the bus
> during early boot... I am not too keen thinking up this just now if we
> already know that thing will change quite a bit sooner or later in this
> area...
Ah, ok...
Would be great if anybody keeps this in mind then. ;)
Thanks!
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Schoene Gruesse
Chris
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